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ethanol
January 19, 2024
Tom Philpott
The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible
Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Putting regular solar panels on some of that land would be better.
December 6, 2022
Timothy Noah
Good Riddance to the Iowa Caucuses
The Democrats should have pushed the Hawkeye State to the back of the line decades ago.
August 7, 2020
Charlie Hope-D’Anieri
Farms Can’t Save the Planet
U.S. senators, McDonald's, Microsoft, and the agribusiness lobby are pushing the dangerous myth that carbon storage in American farmland will stave off climate catastrophe.
February 10, 2020
Miranda Green
How Ditching the Iowa Caucus Could Remake the Biofuels Debate
If politicians no longer coveted that early "Iowa bump," would they still feel compelled to support ethanol subsidies?
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