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Meeting the Environmental Challenges of Biofuels

Posted on October 15, 2008

A fascinating discussion this morning at the opening session of the Transition to a Bioeconomy: Environmental and Rural Development Impacts conference here in St. Louis.Speakers have included government and university experts who are presenting what challenges face the bioeconomy, especially on the environmental side of the issue.Kitty Smith with the USDA's Economic Research Service and chair of the The Bioeconomy & the Environment session says biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are a much better alternative to non-renewable fossil fuels. But there are legal, economic and market ...

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