Weekly Updates

• Biomass Update, July 8
• Biomass Update, June 30

Reports

• The Billion Gallon Challenge: A UCS report on how to get Biofuels back on track (Union of concerned Scientists)
• Meals Per Gallon: the Impact of Industrial Biofuels on People and Global Hunger (ActionAid)
• Corn Ethanol and Wildlife  (WWF)
• Growing a Green Energy Future: a Primer and Vision for Sustainable Biomass (National Wildlife Federation)

Fact Sheets

• Getting Renewables Right: Biomass (The Wilderness Society)
• Don't Mess with the RFS
• Putting Biofuels on the Right Track (NRDC)
• Rules for Fuels: Biofuels and Climate Change Impacts (WRI)
• The Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit: Why it Wastes Money (FOE, OXFAM, NRDC, Environmental Working Group, Taxpayers for Common Sense)

Sign-on Letter

• Environmental Coalition Congratulates Congress in RFS safeguard letter (February 14, 2008)
• Letter to Senators urging opposition to all amendments to the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Substitute to the Climate Security Act  (June 3, 2008)
• Letter to Senator Reid and McConnel Opposing extension of VEETC (September 17, 2008)
• Letter to EPA Administartor Johnson Asking for a robust analysis of the GHG emissions from Biofuels (November 10, 2008)
• Letter to EPA Administrator Johnson fron Senators concerned about RFS in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (November 14, 2008)
• Letter to Reid and Pelosi asking them to phase out fossil fuel subsidies (November 18, 2008)
• Letter to Lisa Jackson on indirect greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels (March 19, 2009)
• Letter urging Senators to safeguard the definition of biomass in RFS (March 27, 2009)
• Letter from 47 NGOs to Senators in Opposition to S 636 (March 27, 2009)
• Letter urging Senators to safeguard the definition of biomass in RFS (March 27, 2009)
• Letter to Chairman Nichols in Support of the Low Carbon Standard  (April 14, 2009) 
• Letter to Representatives reagrding the Renewable Fuel Standard’s definition of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels (May 19, 2009) 
• Letter to House from environmental NGOs regarding H.R. 1190 (May 6, 2009)
• Letter to the house in opposition of the Terry Ammendment (May 20, 2009)
• Letter to Pelosi from NGOs concerned that biomass energy will increase world hunger ( June 9, 2009)
• Letter to Peterson, Markey, and Waxman regarding defintion of GHG Emissions in RFS (June 10, 2009)
• ILUC house letter asking Congressmen to Reject Weakening of Global Warming Standards for Biofuels from Appropriations (June 22, 2009)
• Letter from American Lung Association, concerns about pollution from Biomass (June 24, 2010) 
• Letter to Chairman Inouye and Vice Chairman Cochran (July 22, 2009)
• Letter to Boxer and Inhoufe  in Opposition to Legislative Action Prohibiting or Delaying the Inclusion of Carbon Emissions from Indirect Land Use Change in the Life Cycle GHG emissions from Biofuels (july 22, 2009)
• Letter to Boxer, Bingaman, Harkin Opposing Exclusion of Indirect Land Use Emissions from Biofuels (Aug. 26, 2009)
• Hunger, Development, Environment and Religious Coalition Letter Boxer, Bingaman and Harkin Opposing Weakening of RFS Life-Cycle Emissions (Aug. 27, 2009)
• Letter to Senate regarding Biofuels effect on world hunger (August 27, 2009)
• Letter to Mary Nichols, Chairman of CA Air Resources Board, on Biomass and Indirect Land Use Change
• Letter against amendments in Aprropriations that prevent EPA from Calculating indirect impacts from biofuels production (September 21, 2009)
• ILUC Senate letter asking Senators to Reject Weakening of Global Warming Standards for Biofuels from Appropriations (September 21, 2009)
• Letter to Chairman Inouye and Vice Chairman Cochran urging opposition to Legislative Prohibition or Delay of the inclusion of Carbon Emission from Indirect Land use in the lifecycle of GHG emissions from Biofuels (September 21, 2009)
• American Lung Association of Massachussets letter to Senator Kerry regarding woody biomass pollution (November 16, 2009)
• Letter to Chairman Baucus from environmental NGOs regardingbiodiesal tax credits (December 10, 2009)
• Letter to Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman regarding the definition of renewable biomass in ACES (April 8, 2010)
• Environmental Coalition House letter in Opposition to the Extension of the Volumetric Ethanol Exercise Tax Credit (April 12, 2010)
• Environmental Coalition Senate Letter in Opposition to the Extension of the Volumetric Ethanol Exercise Tax Creadit ( April 12, 2010)
• Letter on Biomass GHG Emissions, from 90 scientists to Reid and Pelosi (May 17, 2010)
• Letter Urging Senators to Oppose Baucaus, Tester, and Crapo's bill (May 28, 2010)
• Letter to Senators Regarding biomass and EPA tailoring Rule (July 2, 2010)
• Letter to EPA Regarding Biomass and Tailoring rule  (July 2, 2010)
• Letter from Environmental NGOs opposing Biofuels Components in SAFEST (July 2010)

Comments 

Statements

• American Lung Association of New England Position on Biomass 
• Massachusetts Audobon Position on Woody Biomass Production
• Massachusetts Medical Society Position on Biofuels
• Sierra Club  Massachusetts Chapter Statement on Biofuels
• Sierra Club Statement on Biofuels

Articles

• Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma (Science Magazine)

Visuals

• Ad Against Ethanol Subsidies