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The future of biofuels is not in corn

New, comprehensive analysis shows how ethanol is being oversold

The nation’s headlong rush to embrace “bio-fuels” gained yet more momentum with the Senate’s decision last month to quintuple the production of ethanol and more “advanced biofuels” by 2022.

The industry claims that biofuels will not only lower the greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate global warming, but they’re the key to reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil imports and to revitalizing family farming in rural America.

However, according to “The Rush to Ethanol” — a new and comprehensive analysis by Food & Water Watch, the Network for New Energy Choices, and the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center — biofuels, and corn-ethanol especially, are being dangerously oversold. By distinguishing snake-oil solutions from scientifically sound claims, the report will better inform the national debate on bio-fuels.

A press call will be held at noon on July 18, the date of the report’s release. To join the call, receive embargoed copies of the report, or book advance interviews with its authors, please contact Denise Hughes at 917-549-2621, Denise@creative-connectors.com

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