A Greener World - While the cattle
industry is repeatedly accused of being the main culprit for increased
global methane emissions (and a leading cause for climate change), a new
study shows that the fertilizer industry is the root cause.
The report
by researchers from Cornell and the Environmental Defense Fund,
published in Elementa, shows that emissions of methane from the
industrial fertilizer industry have been ridiculously underestimated
(and, it turns out, based on self-reporting) and the production of
ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than
previously estimated for this sector. What’s worse is that these newly
calculated emission amounts from the industrial fertilizer industry are
actually more than the total amount the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) estimated for all industries to emit across the U.S.
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