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  • EPA: ethanol crops displaces climate-friendly ones

    05/05/2009 9:24:46 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 698+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/5/09 | H. Josef Hebert - ap
    WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency says that corn ethanol — as made today — has a worse impact on climate than gasoline when land use changes are considered. But EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Tuesday that future improvements in production technologies are expected to make ethanol and other biofuels more climate friendly than gasoline. .. Some scientists say that by using more land to grow ethanol crops, there is an increase in greenhouse gases as vegetation that absorbs carbon is replaced.