2007Apr18: A Stanford researcher reports that ethanol would produce more ground-level ozone than petroleum, causing equal or greater risk to public health than petroleum. Mark Z. Jacobson, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, was the lead author of the study that appeared in Environmental Science and Technology (LA Times, 2007).
Reference: Los Angeles Times. 2007.
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