BIOFUEL ECO-STANDARDS REQUIRED SAYS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission's controversial proposals promoting biofuels within the European Union (EU) are already running into political difficulties over their environmental impact. The European Parliament's environment committee has debated the idea and backed a report saying biofuels should generate half of the CO2 created by mineral fuels - when assessing their production, distribution and consumption - to count towards Brussels' proposed 10% by 2020 fuel target. Dutch socialist MEP Dorette Corbey claimed there was significant support for this ...
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