{"id":283105,"date":"2010-02-05T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:36:33","slug":"epa-finalizes-biofuel-rules-corn-based-cellulosic-ethanol-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283105","title":{"rendered":"EPA Finalizes Biofuel Rules; Corn-based &amp; Cellulosic Ethanol reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\nclass=\"size-large wp-image-5758 alignleft\" title=\"corn based ethanol\" src=\"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/corn-based-ethanol-337x300.jpg\" alt=\"corn based ethanol\" width=\"303\" height=\"270\" \/>The Obama Administration announced this week new biofuel rules for a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2).  The EPA will calculate greenhouse gas emissions from <a\ntitle=\"Brazil sugarcane power plant\" href=\"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/article\/brazil-opens-worlds-first-sugarcane-based-ethanol-power-plant\/\" >biofuels<\/a> in the following way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Corn-based ethanol with <a\ntitle=\"international indirect land use\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indirect_land_use_change_impacts_of_biofuels\" >international indirect land use<\/a> included: 21 percent reduction.<br\n\/> &#8211; Corn-based ethanol without that land use included: 52 percent.<br\n\/> &#8211; Cellulosic ethanol: between 72 and 130 percent reduction, depending upon feedstock and conversion process.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a\ntitle=\"EPA biofuel rules\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/otaq\/renewablefuels\/index.htm\" >EPA rules<\/a>, by 2012, &#8220;at least 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel must be blended into <a\ntitle=\"eco cars\" href=\"http:\/\/buildaroo.com\/news\/topic\/eco-friendly-transportation\/cars-eco-friendly-transportation\/\" >motor-vehicle<\/a> fuel sold in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>image source: Danish center for biofuels<\/p>\n<p>via <a\ntitle=\"epa finalizes biofuel rules\" href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/04\/epa-finalizes-biofuel-rules-says-corn-ethanol-beats-gasoline-in\/\" >autobloggreen <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration announced this week new biofuel rules for a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). The EPA will calculate greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels in the following way: &#8211; Corn-based ethanol with international indirect land use included: 21 percent reduction. &#8211; Corn-based ethanol without that land use included: 52 percent. &#8211; Cellulosic ethanol: between 72 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}