Friday, June 22, 2007

more corn ethanol+fertilizer leakage=bigger dead zone

The corn ethanol craze is causing more lands to be put into production to grow corn. This is resulting in some really nasty unintended consequences, including the expansion of the already too big "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Read all about it in the Environmental Working Group's article "Rewarding Fertilizer Pollution With Crop Subsidies"

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