Big Ag Goes Green

Interesting and disquieting post in Commons blog giving alternative view on no-till carbon sequestration.

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Published on Thursday, June 11, 2009 by Civil Eats
Big Ag Goes Green

by Tom Laskawy

Sadly, the green I’m referring to is the color of money. As Tom Philpott reports, Big Ag is trying to get an agricultural technique known as “chemical no-till” established as a legitimate carbon offset in the Waxman/Markey legislation. There’s only one problem, all the research out there says that chemical no-till doesn’t actually sequester carbon: Link to article