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Africa Monitor
How rising global food prices could affect Africa (VIDEO)

Higher global food prices are likely to spell trouble for aid organizations working to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa.
Senate votes to end ethanol tax breaks: What it means

A Senate vote to eliminate $6 billion in tax breaks for ethanol producers is a strong sign that ethanol is losing allies and Congress is increasingly open to getting rid of tax breaks.
If Senate repeals ethanol subsidies, what happens at the gas pump?

The Senate vote on repealing tax subsidies for ethanol producers has big political ramifications, but the impact on the industry could be minimal. A continuing federal mandate that requires refiners to blend ethanol into gasoline provides adequate support for producers, experts say.
The ‘holy grail’ of biofuels now in sight

Long-promised cellulosic ethanol is in modest production, but hurdles remain.
Discoveries
Dump corn stalks at sea to slow global warming?
Bright Green
Greens mixed on Obama's Interior, Agriculture picks

Barack Obama announced two more cabinet picks Wednesday – former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for Agriculture secretary and Colorado Senator Ken Salazar for Interior secretary – drawing both praise and criticism from environmental groups.
Are alternative fuels reliving the 1980s?

Today’s slumping oil prices may undermine viability of alt-fuel programs – again.
The race for nonfood biofuel

High gas prices and politics push companies toward the ‘holy grail’ of biofuel: cellulosic ethanol.
Media survey: Politicians rethink food-based ethanol

Drawbacks appear in a process once touted as an answer to global warming.
Media survey: Politicians rethink food-based ethanol

Drawbacks appear in a process once touted as an answer to global warming.
Brazil defends ethanol in food-versus-fuel fight

President Lula says the largest ethanol exporter makes fuel from sugar, not corn. And there's a sugar surplus.
Brazil defends ethanol in food-versus-fuel fight

President Lula says the largest ethanol exporter makes fuel from sugar, not corn. And there's a sugar surplus.
U.S. eyes shift away from corn ethanol

Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the biofuel industry to use nonfood crops.
US eyes shift from corn ethanol

Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the industry to use nonfood crops.
New research raises concern on biofuel safety

Even as some states are mandating ethanol as part of the fuel mix, new research suggests that some biofuels are less ecofriendly than they seem.
New research raises concern on biofuel safety
Halt the gold rush to corn fuel

To take corn out of cereal bowls and put it into our gas tanks isn't an answer to global warming.