Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - October 19, 2018

Growing the Bioeconomy Over Next Decade Crucial to Combatting Climate Change

The most recent consensus report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Global Warming of 1.5° should serve as a wakeup call to humanity.  According to the October 8 report, the world has only 12 years to dramatically shift economies from their utter reliance on fossil fuels to be able to meet net zero emissions by 2050. These targets are required if we are to keep global temperatures at or below 1.5°C, a threshold that the IPCC finds will invoke conditions that will make large swaths of the globe uninhabitable, causing massive destabilization among society.

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Headlines: 

1. EPA Chief Says Agency Can Expand Ethanol Sales Without Congress
2. Dems Ask Trump Administration to Honor Renewable Fuel Standard Commitments
3. Illinois Slaughterhouse Biggest Nitrogen Polluter of Waterways in US, Study Finds
4. Colorado Bioenergy Producer Asks EPA to Process eRIN Applications
5. US Environmental Protection Agency Aims to Adopt New Fuel Economy Rule by March, E15 Rule by May
 

 

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