{"id":16865,"date":"2013-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130712-06n"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:00:00","slug":"meps-deal-a-blow-to-crop-based-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/meps-deal-a-blow-to-crop-based-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs deal a blow to crop-based biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EU efforts to limit the use of crop-based biofuels, increasingly seen as doing the planet more harm than good, won parliamentary backing on Thursday (11 July) in what a top biodiesel company called &#8220;a very bad blow&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The vote in the European Parliament&#8217;s environment committee will be followed by a plenary vote, expected in September. It will also require endorsement by EU member states, which are deeply divided on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/energy\/meps-deal-blow-crop-based-biofue-news-529274?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=EurActivRSS\" >www.euractiv.com\/energy\/meps-deal-blow-crop-based-biofue-news-529274?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=EurActivRSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: plant closures, job losses, biodiesel, transport fuel, rapeseed oil, palm oil, soyoil, potential environmental damage, food price inflation, ILUC<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>EU efforts to limit the use of crop-based biofuels, increasingly seen as doing the planet more harm than good, won parliamentary backing on Thursday (11<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[4514,5585,4568,2627],"class_list":["post-16865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-parliament","supplier-european-union","supplier-joint-research-centre-jrc","supplier-sofiprotol-novance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}