Carbon Footprint Analysis Key for Ethanol Industry
3/9/2009

Stoel Rives attorney Graham Noyes recently reviewed in Ethanol Producer Magazine the importance of climate change in the energy priorities of President Barack Obama and the potential impact of this focus on the U.S. ethanol industry.

Noyes said that carbon will be a critical issue for the ethanol industry in the coming years. He pointed to indirect land use metrics as a key carbon footprint issue currently under consideration by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "When a fuel is assigned a particular value in those systems, that becomes the truth for that policy or regulation, and there is oftentimes no changing it. If corn ethanol is not graded well, and there are a lot policy issues that impact the science on how that grading is done, then [the industry] is going to suffer from it and be in a much less favorable position than if it gets a more favorable assessment in those findings."

Read the Ethanol Producer Magazine article

"Obama and His Green Dream Team" was published by Ethanol Producer Magazine, April 2009.