The online environmental news service Greenwire reports that, “A clean air advocacy group today joined the chorus of voices asking Congress to postpone expanding the biofuels mandate, pointing to a similar plan implemented by the European Union.”

The Greenwire story continues: “The Boston-based Clean Air Task Force argued in a report that Europe’s 2003 biofuels directive led to unexpected increases in greenhouse gas emissions, tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss.”

The Clean Air Task Force report, “Leaping Before They Looked: Lessons from Europe’s Experience with the 2003 Biofuels Directive,” is available here.