It could be years before farmers see any gains from the rollback of E15 restrictions—or before oil interests and environmental groups see any losses.
Ethanol won't save us from oil dependence—or climate change.
Researchers combine ecological and economic models to examine the benefits of growing grass as fuel.
The fact that corn-based ethanol is renewable doesn’t make it sustainable. When will presidential candidates stumping in Iowa admit as much?
When it comes to making ethanol, taking a hard, second look at seemingly great ideas is smart policy.
While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.
Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce 'the forgotten greenhouse gas.'