Nature GeoScience: Farming Pollution

Modern farms produce particulate matter and gases that affect the environment and human health and add to rising atmospheric greenhouse-gas levels. European policymakers have made progress in controlling these emissions, but US regulations remain inadequate.

Modern farms produce particulate matter and gases that affect the environment and human health and add to rising atmospheric greenhouse-gas levels. European policymakers have made progress in controlling these emissions, but US regulations remain inadequate.

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Dr. Jan Willem Erisman is manager of the unit Biomass, Coals and Environmental research of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN).

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