Published online 1 March 2008
Published in J Environ Qual 37:318-324 (2008)
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0599
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The New Gold Rush: Fueling Ethanol Production while Protecting Water Quality
Thomas W. Simpsona,
Andrew N. Sharpleyb,*,
Robert W. Howarthc,
Hans W. Paerld and
Kyle R. Mankine
a Dep. of Environmental Science and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
b Dep. of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
c Dep. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14853
d Inst. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC 28557
e Dep. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS 66506

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Fig. 1. Historic ethanol production trends world wide (adapted from World Watch Institute, 2006) and in the USA (adapted from Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2006).
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