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