corn ethanol proponents It's renewable, and corn is plentiful in the United States. Burning corn ethanol can cut greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 20 percent, compared with gasoline. Producing ethanol generates fewer emissions, too. opponents It contains one-third less energy than gas, which means mileage could be up to 30 to 40 percent lower (E-85). Massive ethanol production could cause a shortage of corn available for food and destroy habitat. algae biofuels facts - Microalgae, as distinct from seaweed or macroalgae, can potentially produce 100 times more oil per acre than soybeans -- or any other terrestrial oil-producing crop. - Algae can be cultivated in large, open ponds or in closed photobioreactors located on non-arable land in a variety of climates, including deserts....
The United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies. An agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program will likely follow within days. A broad outline of the emerging agreement has been made known to The Associated Press by people close to the negotiations.
...With little arable land and outdated agricultural practices, North Ko...
... largest consumer of petroleum fuels in the United States, the military has an opportunity to serve a... demonstrate that the aircraft could fly and land safely. Additional flights are scheduled and, in f... acre and because of the amount of suitable arable land available in the United States. Also, at the ...
...At 118 million acres, the United States accounted for the majority (59%) of genetic... five to 10 years, citing both its lack of arable land and the lower pesticide and herbicide require...
S. and British economic sanctions have had an extremely adverse affect on the Zimbabwean economy. International finance and trade have been frozen for years. The sanctions were imposed after President [Robert Mugabe], at the behest of the people of Zimbabwe, reclaimed vast tracks of arable, mineralrich land stolen by British settlers and redistributed it to indigenous peoples," said spokesperson Omowale Clay. Clay added that after Mugabe's stringent land reclamation policy went into effect, "Suddenly, President Mugabe became an enemy of the West. The severe sanctions were deliberately imposed in order to make the Zimbabwean economy scream and break the bond between ZANU-PF and the people. Here in the U.S., we must demand Congress immediately end the toxic Zimbabwe Democracy and Econo...
... to the economic sanctions imposed by the United States, Britain, and 20 other western nations. Nam...
...- between Citizens of the same State claiming Land under Grants of different States, and between a St..., are insufficient to be considered irrep-arable in this sense. Even if a state criminal statute i...
..., Friedman argues that, since 2000, the United States has faced two major crises, 9-1-1 and 4-1-1... impact reports that the Bureau of Land Management has been issued one permit for even a s... its biofuels production, 1 percent of its arable land. This is clearly a success story in a countr...
... around the shores of the lake," since the arable and pasture lands of Utah County were fully utiliz...
...), 5 million rural Mexican had lost their land rights (Pedraza and Rumbaut 1996, 254); by 1910 le... a massive irrigation system that expanded arable land, particularly in the north and the west-centr...
The Federal Power Act requires hydropower licensees to recompense the United States for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands. The Commission assesses annual charges for the use of Federal lands through Part 11 of its regulations. The Commission is proposing to revise the methodology used to compute these annual charges. Under the proposed rule, the Commission would create a fee schedule based on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) methodology for calculating rental rates for linear rights of way. This methodology includes a land value per acre, an encumbrance factor, a rate of return, and an annual adjustment factor. The fee schedule would include all adjustments described in the BLM rule adopting this methodology, except the allocation of county land values into zones....
... for farm buildings, for the cleared, arable, level land that it represented, and for the fact ...
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