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@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com · 6 days ago

Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint.

Of course, policies that would mitigate climate impact got stripped out by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Good reporting by Floodlight

https://floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol-clean-energy-vs-climate-costs/

#corn #AgPolicy #Climate #ClimateChange #GroundwaterPollution #biofuels #KingCorn #NitrousOxide #ethanol #nitrate #nitrogen #groundwater #NitrogenFertilizer #agriculture #lobbying #CorporateLobbying #OBBBA

Floodlight

Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint

Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied · 6 days ago

@MarkBrigham

The idea that fossil fuel driven industrial agriculture can be clean is contradictory.

Killing the land for industrial agriculture, and all the fossil fuel usage it demands is the essence of climate change.

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