Sentences with phrase «caused by the ethanol»

«Instead of continuing to play political games with our environment and public health, these legislators are moving policies that will help undo the damage caused by the ethanol mandate.

Not exact matches

The fitness industry has long had a negative stance on alcohol consumption due to its lack of nutrition (empty calories) and ethanol content, the toxic metabolic by - product that can cause damage to your liver and inhibit essential nutrient absorption like amino acids and B vitamins, while also impeding upon muscle protein synthesis.

In fact, many of the health problems from abusing alcohol are caused indirectly by glutathione deficiency, since the main by - product of ethanol produced in liver is acetaldehyde and glutathione has to detoxify that.

Interestingly for people who can't resist wine or beer, this study examined ethanol specifically, and found that ginger reversed the glutathione decrease caused by drinking it.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

After discussing the «carbon monoxide, methanol, toluene, and volatile organic compounds» emitted by ethanol plants, the article addressed the issue of pollution caused by corn farming:

Biofuel programs pursued by Europe and the United States during the last two decades caused an additional 41 million hectares of land to be used for ethanol and biodiesel production, an area the size of Germany.

In 2002, twelve Minnesota ethanol plants were fined by US Department of Justice for violation of Clean Air Act and each agreed to spend more than $ 2 million for installation of control devices to reduce air pollutants, which were caused primarily by the manufacturing of Dry Distiller Grain animal feed.

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

This topic is about the ozone pollution caused by using ethanol as fuel.

This is on top of other problems caused by adding ethanol to gasoline — poor engine performance, higher food prices, and more

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Indeed, an article in Popular Science cites a study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University that predicts that U.S. ethanol production could consume more than half of corn, wheat and coarse grains by 2012, ratcheting up food prices and potentially causing massive shortages.

For 23 years they have maintained these shindigs with no effect on the climate but causing great harm to many ordinary people — soaring costs for unreliable subsidised green electricity, loss of manufacturing and mining jobs, and increased food costs caused by high power prices and using food for ethanol / biodiesel.

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