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WASHINGTON – A newly published study shows that effective land management practices can reduce the so called carbon debt attributed to biofuels to near zero. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with growing agricultural feedstocks for biofuels can be greatly reduced using available crop management techniques, such as no-till agriculture, according to the new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology by Bruce Dale and Seungdo Kim of Michigan State University and Hyungtae Kim of Phillips Academy Andover.
Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organizations (BIO) Industrial & Environmental Section, noted that the study is relevant to the continuing debate on the life cycle assessment of biofuels to be included in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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