EU rethinks biofuels guidelines
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The EU's environment chief admits it did not foresee the problems raised by its policy of boosting biofuels use.
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Making ethanol from corn is expensive. Better biofuels are years away from the gas tank. But do we really have any alternative?
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The European Commission announces plans to force energy companies to produce greener fuels.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidizes, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.
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If sugar beet production is to continue in Finland, it needs smaller sugar price cuts than planned by the European Union, full compensation of income losses to farmers and preservation of import and production ...
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Europe must ensure biofuels do not become an environmental threat in coming years, the EU trade chief says.
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Plans are afoot for excess wine to be turned into ethanol for the European alternative fuel market -- but not in Italy where the fruit of the vine is sacred. By Bernhard Warner from Wired magazine.
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The European Commission is expected to endorse a watered-down blueprint that would impose a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from new passenger cars.
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European Union foreign ministers failed to agree on Monday whether to set binding targets for the use of green renewable energy sources, setting up a potential clash when the bloc's leaders meet this week.Comment
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Changing plant feedstock to fuel takes four steps, not necessarily easy.
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IBEC has launched a website with a set of guidelines to help companies with complex EU chemical laws that came into force yesterday. IBEC is also to run a series of training programmes for companies.
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Science & environment: Using biofuels could have a greater environmental impact than fossil fuels, according to experts
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DURBAN, Sep 27 (IPS) - Biofuels offer Africa the chance to supply itself  with alternative energy sources, and also to become a major  supplier of these sources for developed markets. Yet, challenges  -- from creating the relevant infrastructure to competition for  biofuel crops from food markets -- remain.
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Energy ministers agree to increase the share of biofuel used in transport but leave a broader renewables target vague.
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Growing capacity could break the heart of ethanol investors.
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Ethanol is the currently the star of biofuels but new mandates will spur development of synthetic biofuels that mimic fossil fuels, says policy analyst.
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The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.