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Malaysia and Indonesia To Expand Domestic Palm Oil Biodiesel as Commodity Price Drops

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oil palm close up photo
photo by Geoff Leeming

I know I finger-wag at Indonesia and Malaysia quite frequently over the way in which palm oil is cultivated. Not only are the plantations such a severe threat to Orangutan habitat that the animals could be the first great ape (in modern times) to go extinct , but biodiesel made from palm oil can have carbon emissions greatly higher than that of petro diesel. To be fair, it’s not the palm oil itself that’s the problem, but ra

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