[APWG] NEWS: Experts worry plant used for biofuel is bad for environment
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Dec 5 08:08:19 CST 2008
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/03/experts-worry-plant-used-biofuel-bad-environment/
Experts worry plant used for biofuel is bad for environment
By CHARLIE WHITEHEAD
Originally published 7:40 p.m., Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Updated 7:40 p.m., Wednesday, December 3, 2008
BONITA SPRINGS -- It's not kudzu and it's not melaleuca, but the Florida
Native Plant Society and others say that the spread of jatropha could be
just as troubling.
Kudzu -- the so-called vine that strangled the south -- was introduced in
North America at the Centennial Expo in 1876. The Japanese native was
sweet-smelling and fast-growing, promoted for erosion control and planted
by the federal government in the 1930's and 1940's.
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