Drought Withers U.S. Corn Crop, Heats Debate on Ethanol

Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

With the U.S. corn harvest shriveled by drought, pressure builds to suspend the national ethanol mandate. But it's not easy to turn off the biofuel pumps.

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