by rethinkethanol | Dec 8, 2025 | Featured Writing
The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop? Corn, Climate, and Policy: The Growing Debate Over Ethanol’s True Impact A new investigation highlights mounting concerns about the environmental consequences of America’s reliance...
by rethinkethanol | Nov 17, 2025 | Featured Writing
An ethanol plant for years polluted a Nebraska town. The health impacts still aren’t fully known A Community Exposed: How an Ethanol Plant Polluted a Nebraska Town For years, the AltEn ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska operated using an unusual and hazardous feedstock:...
by rethinkethanol | Sep 12, 2025 | Featured Writing
White House review of biofuel waiver plan pits farmers against refiners The Future of U.S. Ethanol: Farmers, Refiners, and the White House at a Crossroads The future of U.S. biofuel demand is at a crossroads as the White House reviews a draft rule from the...
by rethinkethanol | Aug 14, 2025 | Featured Writing
Ethanol corn uses farmland area the size of New York — could solar do it better? Rethink Ethanol: A Land-Use Comparison A recent study from Cornell University reveals that U.S. corn grown for ethanol occupies nearly 30 million acres—an area roughly the size of New...
by rethinkethanol | May 18, 2022 | Featured Writing
Ethanol and Inflation By Jerry Jung | May 16, 2022 Let’s overlook the devastating impact that biofuel production has on our surface and ground water. Let’s forget about the loss of tens of millions of acres of natural habitat and its calamitous impact on local and...