{"id":7049,"date":"2015-01-30T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2015-01-30T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:22:36","slug":"yellow-light-on-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7049","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Light on Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Posted\u00a01\/14\/08)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s premier professional association for ecologists, the Ecological Society of America, has weighed in with a statement on biofuels that urges policy-makers and planners to go slow in converting lands to biofuel crops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupplying the emerging biofuels industry with enough biomass to meet the U.S. biofuel energy target \u2013 replacing 30 percent of the current U.S. petroleum consumption with biofuels by 2030 \u2013 will have a major impact on the management and sustainability of many U.S. ecosystems,\u201d reads the policy statement from the society, which represents some 10,000 ecological scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent grain-based ethanol production systems damage soil and water resources in the U.S. and are only profitable in the context of tax breaks and tariffs,\u201d the society said in a news release. \u201cFuture systems based on a combination of cellulosic materials and grain could be equally degrading to the environment, with potentially little carbon savings, unless steps are taken now that incorporate principles of ecological sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full policy statement is available on the society\u2019s website: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/\">www.esa.org<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Posted&nbsp;1\/14\/08) The nation&rsquo;s premier professional association for ecologists, the Ecological Society of America, has weighed in with a statement on biofuels that urges policy-makers and planners to go slow in converting lands to biofuel crops. &ldquo;Supplying the emerging biofuels industry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7049\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,14],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eh-xtra","category-energy","tag-patricia-tummons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}