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Earth Policy News – Lester Brown on Capitol Hill on biofuels, 6/13/07 (S2030 CROSS POST). Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute president and author of Plan B 2.0 will brief the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works tomorrow, Wednesday, June 13, at 10 am. The briefing will focus on biofuels. Other presenters include: Vinod Khosla, VeraSun Energy Corporation Bob Dineen, Renewable Fuels Association Jason Hill, University of Minnesota Dan Lashoff, Natural Resources Defense Council. The meeting, open to the public, will be held in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Lester Brown will be available for comment before and after the briefing. You may also call Earth Policy Institute at 202-496-9290 or see www.earthpolicy.org for more information. The paper Lester Brown is submitting to the Committee can be viewed on-line at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Transcripts/SenateEPW07.hMLPREVIEW: The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide. Investment in fuel ethanol distilleries has soared since gasoline prices jumped at the end of 2005. Once completed, distilleries now under construction could double U.S. ethanol output, turning nearly 30 percent of next year’s U.S. grain harvest into fuel for automobiles. This unprecedented diversion of the world’s leading grain crop to the production of fuel will affect food prices everywhere, risking political instability. To read more see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Transcripts/SenateEPW07.htm.
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