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

Icymi:

‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

#datacenters #groundwaterpollution #environment #waterpollution

Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought
Oil operations release vast quantities of damaging particles and noxious compounds.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/air-pollution-from-canadas-tar-sands-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/

#FossilFuels #CarbonBomb #CarbonMegaBomb #DirtyFuels #Pollution #AirPollution #GroundwaterPollution #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #Carbon

Not great news from my homestate about the dioxane plume that's been slowly spreading under part of Ann Arbor, Michigan for decades: Dioxane has turned up in a residential groundwater well in Ann Arbor Township more than 1 mile north of the plume's estimated boundary, raising new concerns about insufficient groundwater testing.

More via MLive: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/12/resident-advised-to-use-bottled-water-after-dioxane-discovery-north-of-ann-arbor-plume.html

#AnnArbor #Dioxane #AnnArborDioxanePlume #Michigan #WaterQuality #GroundwaterPollution