Recent grassland losses are concentrated around U.S. ethanol refineries

Although the United States has pursued rapid development of corn ethanol as a matter of national biofuel policy, relatively little is known about this policy’s widespread impacts on agricultural land conversion surrounding ethanol refineries. This knowledge gap impedes policy makers’ ability to iden...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Christopher K Wright, Ben Larson, Tyler J Lark, Holly K Gibbs
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Subjects:	renewable fuel standard ethanol biofuel land use change grassland
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6446