Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Dispute over biofuels has a middle ground

StarTribune.com Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
By JIM HARKNESS, MICHAEL NOBLE and PATRICK MOORE
Last update: June 13, 2009 - 10:49 PM

We should consider indirect impacts, but the science for doing so is immature.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson has been lambasted by editorial pages and some environmentalists for threatening to block progress on national climate legislation over a dispute concerning biofuels. But the all-or-nothing approach of both Peterson and his critics does not serve biofuels, agriculture or the fight against global warming.

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