{"id":2249,"date":"2010-03-12T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2010-03-12T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:56:39","slug":"the-case-against-biofuels-probing-ethanol%e2%80%99s-hidden-costs-yale-environment-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol\u2019s Hidden Costs: Yale Environment 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In light of the strong evidence that growing corn, soybeans, and other food crops to produce ethanol takes a heavy toll on the environment and is hurting the world\u2019s poor through higher food prices, consider this astonishing fact: This year, more than a third of the U.S.\u2019s record corn harvest of 335 million metric tons will be used to produce corn ethanol. What\u2019s more, within five years fully 50 percent of the U.S. corn crop is expected to wind up as biofuels.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2251\">The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol\u2019s Hidden Costs by C. Ford Runge: Yale Environment 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In light of the strong evidence that growing corn, soybeans, and other food crops to produce ethanol takes a heavy toll on the environment and is hurting the world\u2019s poor through higher food prices, consider this astonishing fact: This year, more than a third of the U.S.\u2019s record corn harvest of 335 million metric tons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}