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Policy and Regulation
September 26, 2022

Biofuels become an environmental battleground

ByPhilippa Nuttall
PALESTINE, IL – JULY 25: A field of dead corn sits next to the Lincolnland Agri-Energy ethanol plant July 25, 2012 in Palestine, Illinois. This summer’s extended drought, which has scorched corn and soybean crops across the Midwest, is expected to impact the price of gasoline which, in most states, contains at least 10 percent ethanol. The price of ethanol on the Chicago Board of Trade has risen nearly 25% this year. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The need to balance fighting hunger and saving the environment has made growing crops for fuel an ever more contentious subject.

Biofuels have long been a source of tension in Europe. Today’s energy and food crises, in conjunction with ever more ambitious clean energy targets, have put the ...

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