Members of Parliament Oppose EU Plans to Increase Biofuel Use

The European Parliament’s environment committee has voted to scale down the European Commission’s previously announced plans to make biofuels account for 10% of transport fuel consumed in the European Union (EU) by 2020 (CW, Feb. 7, 2007, p. 7). The committee proposes instead that “renewable resources” including biofuels account for 4% of transport fuel consumed in the EU by 2015 and says that a thorough review should take place before further increasing renewables’ share of transport fuel. Committee members cite recent studies...

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