Questions About Biofuels’ Environmental Costs Could Alter Europe’s Policies

Biofuel

12-02-10

A top European farm official has suggested that yet-to-be-released studies by the European Commission could be used to “kill” heavily promoted and subsidized biofuels by focusing on their total environmental impact.

The suggestion, written in the margins of internal correspondence seen by The International Herald Tribune, could foreshadow a further retreat from the biofuel-friendly policies that the commission once called crucial in the fight against climate change.

Source: www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/business/energy-environment/12biofuel.html

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