Sentences with phrase «debate on biofuels»

Not exact matches

One of the reform proposals most hotly debated in the Senate, but ultimately defeated, was the Lugar - Lautenberg Amendment, which would have shifted subsidies to fruit and vegetable growers and cut overall spending on subsidies in order to shift money to conservation, biofuel and nutrition programs.

For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc. posts framing the debate, one today on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week on the opposing view.

The report calls for greater debate about biofuels before ploughing headlong into a completely biofuel - powered society, although it focuses mainly on first generation fuels, unlike the Science papers.

The debate over biofuels and economics has tended to focus on mandates and subsidies rather than carbon taxes — unsurprisingly, given the absence of carbon - taxing in the U.S. and the prevalence of large biofuel subsidies, primarily via the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Thankfully the biofuel debate doesn't need to just focus on land based biofuels.

But large uncertainties and postulations underlie the debate about the indirect land - use effects of biofuels on tropical deforestation, the critical implication being that use of U.S. farmland for energy crops necessarily causes new land - clearing elsewhere.

Debates about biofuels tend to focus separately on estimates of adverse effects on food security, poverty, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions driven by land - use change (LUC)(1 — 4).

With the debate over the viability of ethanol and other biofuels raging on (and on), some are betting — not on solar, not on wind power — but on geothermal power as the next best possible source of renewable energy (more information on geothermal here,