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We Said What We Parliament
E.U. committee vote signals backstep from biofuels |
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08 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:11 PM on 08 Jul 2008 The European Union took another step back from biofuels late Monday, as the Parliament's environment committee approved 36-0 a proposal to lower the E.U.'s original target for biofueled transportation. The committee's proposal would have the E.U. source just 4 percent of transportation fuels from biomass by 2015, then do a major review before jumping to the current target of 10 percent ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, energy, European Union, international politics, legislation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Crop, Stop, and Roll
E.U. likely to cut subsidies for farmers |
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13 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:11 PM on 13 Mar 2008 With crop prices through the roof and scientific concerns being raised about the greenness of biofuels, various European countries have cut back tax breaks and subsidies for farmers -- and now the European Union as a whole is planning to follow suit. source: The Wall Street Journal see also, in Grist: E.U. says it will be mindful of sustainability in boosting biofuels From ... |
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| Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, energy, European Union, news, politics (all these topics) |
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A Tough Row to Hoe
E.U. says it will be mindful of sustainability in boosting biofuels |
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14 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:06 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Realizing that biofuel production can have negative social and environmental consequences, the European Commission says it will propose "strict conditions that biofuels used in the European market are produced in a sustainable way" instead of barreling ahead willy-nilly (because really, that would be crazy). The commission will announce specific climate-change mitiga ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, energy, European Union, news (all these topics) |
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I Pity the Fuel
Oxfam warns Europe's biofuel boom likely to worsen plight of world's poor |
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01 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:45 AM on 01 Nov 2007 The anti-poverty charity Oxfam said this week that the European Union's rush to biofuels could hit the world's poor quite hard. The group released a report about the issue suggesting that without proper controls to make the biofuels boom sustainable and more just, it's likely to threaten the food supply and provide a large incentive to heavily concentrate land ownership for ... |
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