Big Agriculture Wants To Plow Under Climate Bill

Big Agriculture Wants To Plow Under Climate Bill

If the ag giants get their way, they could seriously compromise the legislation's ability to mitigate climate change. Few deny that changes in agriculture practice could be a major force for sequestering carbon, cutting fossil-fuel use, and stabilizing the climate. A paper by Rattan Lal, director of the School of the Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University, estimates that U.S. farmers could capture 288 million tons of carbon in their soil every year--"enough to offset about about 17 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions.

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