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EU takes note of negative impacts of biofuel, plans policy change

the European Union is planning to ban certain biofuels, saying their social and environmental impacts are dangerous. eu is likely to review its draft policy on biofuels to effect the ban.

The proposed ban will affect import of palm oil from southeast Asia, and soya and ethanol from Latin America. eu's environment commissioner Stavros Dimas spoke about these concerns on January 14