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Earth-Friendly Fuel Found to Pollute

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After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, hopped into his boat to follow it upstream to its source. It turned out to be an old chemical factory that had been converted into Alabama’s first biodiesel plant, a refinery that intended to turn soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel. (New York Times ^[1], Tuesday)

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Mandating Renewable Energy: It's Not Easy Being Green ^[2] by Michael Heberling

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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/us/11biofuel.html?adxnnl=1amp;ref=todayspaperamp;adxnnlx=1205237271-XE7GYo+BBh6fvi1IO6e4Yg

[2] Mandating Renewable Energy: It's Not Easy Being Green: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=5794

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