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Roundtable Reveals International Biofuel Standard

Posted on August 25, 2008

Biofuels offer the promise of a low-carbon fuel that could power vehicles while stimulating the world's rural economies.Yet biofuels are also among the most vilified of environmental technologies. Ethanol refineries are not always clean. The labor on biofuel farms is not always fair. The diversion of feedstocks from food to fuel may be driving up global commodity prices. And the forests, fields, and peat bogs cleared to make room for biofuel crops may release more carbon into the atmosphere than they would save from vehicles not burning fossil fuels.To address these issues, the Roundtable on S...

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