While most of us were raising toasts as fireworks rang in the new year, a quiet but substantial change in renewable energy regulation came to pass. After 30 years of tax credits introduced by the U.S. Energy Tax Act of 1978, the ethanol industry watched these subsidies expire on New Year’s Eve. Previously set to [...]
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3 Feb
Sun Setting on Ethanol’s Glory Days?
After basking briefly in the glow of the EPA’s decision allowing fuel containing up to 15 percent ethanol to be sold, the ethanol industry is now pouting after the release of a draft report from the EPA conceding that water, soil, and air quality all stand to be impacted by increased cultivation of feedstocks for [...]
