Sentences with phrase «pollution as ethanol»

As I have pointed out before, the next phase of fuels will actually cause more pollution as ethanol percentages increase.

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But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

The paper didn't fail to mention what we have reported on before, that corn farming for ethanol using management practices such as commercial fertilizer application, mechanical tillage, and intensive drainage is the most important driver of this increase in nitrogen pollution.

Every increase in ethanol use as fuel will increases the amount of ozone pollution in the United States.

As CEO of BlueFire Ethanol, I spend most of my time guiding and promoting the company to its final destiny of being the solution to man's pollution and supplying the best transportation energy for the world.

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

The EPA considers an ethanol plant as a «major source» of pollution if it produces more than 100 tons of any one pollutant per year, although it has recently proposed increasing that cap to 250 tons.»

To get the whole picture you have to consider ethanol's entire life cycle — the energy inputs and global warming pollution arising from every step in the production process, such as:

The study comes as corn - ethanol faces increasing criticism from environmentalists who say the increased corn production is worsening air and water pollution, depleting water supplies, driving record high food prices, and contributing to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.