The Associated Press has released a story detailing what they call “the environmental cost” of ethanol. The piece is titled “The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push.” Lead writer Dina Cappiello says so called green energies may have more of a downside than advocates want to admit…
Much of the AP story focuses on land conversions, from grasslands, to CRP acres to wetlands that are being planted to corn. Cappiello says they believe those conversions have a long term consequence…
Cappiello says weak government policies, what she calls “cruising on autopilot” is the major driving factor…
We’ll have reaction from the ethanol industry to the AP story Wednesday.