🌿 Environment Apr 3, 2026

U.S. Biofuels Target Could Fuel Destruction of Tropical Rainforest

Yale Environment 360

Opinion and analysis from the Yale School of the Environment

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The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas.Read more on E360 →

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