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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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