New Study Weighs Impacts of Corn Ethanol

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By GreenBiz Staff
Published February 6, 2009

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A new study from the University of Minnesota finds that biofuel made from corn can be as harmful to the environment as gasoline, and that the combined costs to climate-change and health exceed that of gas.

The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also finds that the benefits of second-generation cellulosic ethanol, made from grasses and crops like jatropha, are markedly greater than corn ethanol or gasoline.

The research is the latest in the debate of the merits of first generation biofuel made from corn.

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