Biofuels 'crime against humanity'
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A UN expert says growing crops to make biofuels to replace petrol is a crime against humanity.
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By AOIFE WHITE  BRUSSELS, Belgium - Harming the environment should be treated as a crime, the European Commission said Friday as it put forward a draft law that would punish serious offenses across the EU with up to five years in prison or a $975,000 fine.
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What's the closest thing in politics to a religious experience? The ethanol conversion.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A proposed ethanol alliance that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to forge with President Bush later this week poses both opportunities and risks for the environment, a top U.N. environmental official said Monday.
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The perceived risk of relying on foreign oil and the desire to create fuel from domestic sources guarantees that biofuels will become competitive with crude oil. In Autopia.
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The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.
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DuPont and BP have announced they will invest $58 million in biofuel production assets at two facilities in the U.K. The two plan to construct a biobutanol demonstration facility, what the companies call the ... via Inside Greentech
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Science & environment: Using biofuels could have a greater environmental impact than fossil fuels, according to experts
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By The Associated Press  Offenses covered by a new European Union draft law on crimes against the environment:  - Treatment, transport, export or import of waste that could cause death or injury, or substantial damage.
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The Opec oil cartel chief reportedly warns that biofuel investment could push oil prices "through the roof".
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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BRUSSELS, Jul 2 (IPS) - European Union officials have signalled that they  will ban subsidies for biofuels in cases where their production  causes serious environmental damage.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 5 (IPS) - As a guest at the G8 summit this week in Germany,  Brazilian President Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva will present  arguments to convince the leaders of the world's eight  richest countries of the importance of biofuels in the fight  against global warming.
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PARIS, Jul 13 (IPS) - While oil profits have flooded into countries such  as Angola and Nigeria in recent decades, some African observers  see new potential for the continent in the form of increasingly  in-demand biofuels.
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A furious attack on the rush for biofuels is launched by a charity that supports poor farmers.
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Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show.
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Some key provisions include: ÃÂ· Using 36 billion gallons of biofuels yearly by 2022