Prepared for the Environmental Finance Center by Daria Karetnikov, Elizabeth Skane, and Abdel Abellard, this report seeks to distill the information available about ethanol production and to evaluate the entirety of the impact, primarily focusing on the economic and environmental effects. The report includes an introduction to the policy behind ethanol production, causes behind governmental support for biofuels, trends in ethanol production, stakeholders in the ethanol production chain, ethanol plant structure and their costs of production, and a discussion of the impacts of industry expansion.
Publication Date
January 2, 2008
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