CATF Letter Urging Senators to Suspend RFS and Support Additional Research
July 9th, 2008 by CATF,Letter submitted by CATF, Environmental Working Group, and Friends of the Earth to Senators Carper and Voinovich, in advance of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s July 10, 2008 hearing on the implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The letter discusses the debate sparked by the Texas cattle industry regarding the impact of the Renewable Fuel Standard on the local and national economies. It goes on to describe the indirect impacts of biofuel production on water quality, ecosystem services, climate, and the environment in general.
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CATF Op-Ed on the “Biodiesel Fallacy” in the Boston Globe
November 26th, 2007 by CATF,The “carbon neutral” bioenergy fallacy leads to policies that may have detrimental impacts on the environment. Growing feedstocks for fuel may displace food crop production and detract from available land for natural ecosystem services. In addition, the proposed biodiesel mandate in Massachusetts fails to account for the indirect land use change impacts associated with the conversion of agricultural and natural ecosystem lands to feedstock production.
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