In case you hadn’t noticed, ethanol is getting its lunch eaten by natural gas in the ongoing debate over what alternative energy sources to oil are going to take the...
Once touted as a savior--a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil while slowing global warming and helping farmers--ethanol from corn quickly became a fuel many people hated. Critics blamed...
Ethanol has taken a beating this year. Not only is the industry sucking up taxpayer dollars through subsidies, critics charge, but the use of corn and other crops for fuel...
Let me begin by saying that Michael Pollan is one of the best environmental writers at work today. As one toiling in many of the same fields, I admire Pollan’s...
BusinessWeek correspondents John Carey and Mark Scott, cover the green scene, keeping on top of the business aspects of energy, the environment and climate change, as well as the technologies, policies, markets and people that are shaping how the earth's resources will be used in the century ahead.