Bio-Corn: clean air, dead oceans?

by tjanssen | April 26, 2008 at 07:18 am | 53 views | add comment
Bio-Corn: clean air, dead oceans? by tjanssen

It would be a poor trade off if we killed the seas to fuel our cars.

corn based ethanol production is directly linked to the Gulf of Mexicodead zone. If farmers produced enough corn to meet the congressionalgoal of producing 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, nitrogenrunoff into the Gulf would increase by 10% to 19%, further expandingthe Gulf's dead zone
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Bio-Corn: clean air, dead oceans?

It would be a poor trade off if we killed the seas to fuel our cars."corn based ethanol production is directly linked to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. If farmers produced enough corn to meet the congressional goal of...

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