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Agriculture Showdown to Shape Next-Gen Offsets, Biofuels


   Aug 30

Agriculture Showdown to Shape Next-Gen Offsets, Biofuels

From gigaom.com:

This week’s battles — in a U.S. EPA hearing, fuel standard workshops, negotiations among legislators and in the flurry of press releases that surrounded it all — represent some of the final showdowns in a high-stakes fight over how first-generation biofuels that use agricultural crops for feedstock and agriculture-based carbon offsets will figure into, and compete, in a rapidly changing market. Biofuels are moving toward cellulosic feedstocks, and the still-nascent carbon market is for the first time facing comprehensive regulation in the U.S. that’s placing new scrutiny on offset projects, …

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