Tag: Ethanol Plants Pollute More Than Oil Refineries

The plan for moving the U.S. from oil to corn-based ethanol was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it turns out that ethanol pollutes more than twice as much as regular gas refineries. “Congress mandated the blending of biofuels such as corn-based ethanol into gasoline,” Reuters news service found, “but today, the nation’s ethanol plants […]