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Land Use is Hot Topic in Florida

It’s all about land use - especially indirect land use - here at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit in south Florida. It came up on every panel that I had the chance to hear.

I got the opportunity to chat with Nathanael Greene, Senior Policy Analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council about the issue, who confirmed that it is a complex issue.

“I think it’s really one of the biggest challenges the industry faces,” Greene said. “There’s a lot of complexity and uncertainty surrounding the calculation of it.” He called the report released by the Renewable Fuels Association last week “a valuable addition to the discussion” noting that it shows “how important yield trends have been over time and how that really has almost shrunk the amount of land we need in the world.”

You can listen to my interview with Greene here: