Let's seize the potential of the nation's sugar-based ethanol -- before China beats us to it.
By Joe Conason Jul 18, 2008
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Stopping climate change won't be easy if everybody who squawks gets a free pass
By Andrew Leonard
June 24, 2009
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What America's top advocate for agricultural reform thinks about Obama's pick for Secretary of Agriculture.
By Gabriel Winant
December 17, 2008
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President Bush signed a new energy bill Wednesday, betting the farm that corn ethanol is the best alternative fuel for the future. It isn't.
By Joseph Romm
December 20, 2007
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The presidential candidate says failing to address climate change would lead to new wars and a changed U.S. military.
By Amanda Griscom Little
September 17, 2007
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Show Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who's boss. Chug a Pale Ale today.
By Andrew Leonard
February 6, 2009
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Monsanto likes the former Iowa governor and ethanol booster. Is that enough of a reason for greenie food activists to despair?
By Andrew Leonard
December 17, 2008
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In China a big grain harvest is pushing prices down and imperiling farmers' livelihoods. Time to prescribe some ethanol?
By Andrew Leonard
November 12, 2008
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A science journal details an indirect connection between phosphate-based fertilizers and lead poisoning
By Andrew Leonard
August 6, 2008
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But did Bank president Robert Zoellick just say that the Bush administration's figures on food prices were not to be believed?
By Andrew Leonard
July 8, 2008
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The U.K. Guardian reports some astonishing numbers from a "confidential" World Bank study on energy crops and grain prices.
By Andrew Leonard
July 4, 2008
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Industry capacity hits a new high, even as a dozen companies file for bankruptcy.
By Andrew Leonard
June 27, 2008
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How much do energy crops contribute to food price hikes? Depends how you count
By Andrew Leonard
June 25, 2008
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In an article implicitly critical of the biofuel, the paper explores Barack Obama's position on it and his ties to the industry.
By Alex Koppelman
June 23, 2008
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McCain attacks Obama for supporting tariffs that raise the cost of groceries. If he's talking about Brazilian ethanol, he might have a case.
By Andrew Leonard
June 4, 2008
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Defenders of ethanol, unite -- you have nothing to lose, except maybe your subsidies.
By Andrew Leonard
May 23, 2008
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Cheap corn made America fat. So what's expensive corn going to do?
By Andrew Leonard
February 1, 2008
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As California hammers out its Low Carbon Fuel Standard, getting the science right on biofuels is no easy task
By Andrew Leonard
January 24, 2008
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Follow these rules and you will get social justice, a healthy environment and renewable energy. It's easy!
By Andrew Leonard
September 28, 2007
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Brazil's president, Lula, appears on Charlie Rose, and suggests rich countries should treat biofuel imports as "reparations"
By Andrew Leonard
September 27, 2007
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Are the machete-wielding workers who slave in Brazil's sugar cane fields a liability for multinational agribusinesses?
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2007
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Global inventories of the grain are plunging and prices are surging. Is the biofuel boogeyman to blame?
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2007
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The price of corn is on the rise, the price of sugar is in decline. So which one makes more sense as a biofuel feedstock?
By Andrew Leonard
July 23, 2007
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New figures show American farmers planting even more corn than was previously estimated. And South American farmers are wasting no time following suit.
By Andrew Leonard
June 29, 2007
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Europe has too much wine. But does converting the excess into biofuel make even drunken sense?
By Andrew Leonard
June 26, 2007
One more good reason to lift the embargo on Cuba
Another day, another self-defeating energy bill compromise
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