“Ethanol’s Roots: How Brazilian Legislation Created the International Ethanol Boom” published

The William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review published “Ethanol’s Roots: How Brazilian Legislation Created the International Ethanol Boom,” a review of ethanol policy development by Vanessa Cordonnier. The article warns that the US-Brazilian partnership to expand ethanol production could cause land-use changes and an increase in harful environmental effects.”For example, there is evidence to suggest that an expansion of ethanol production in any country necessarily demands an expansion of land area used to grow the crops from which ethanol is produced—primarily corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil,” Cordonnier writes.

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