EWG submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture on the agency’s future climate-smart agriculture and forestry strategies, and cautioned the USDA against promoting industrial agriculture as a significant or long-lasting source of greenhouse gas emissions reductions for climate change mitigation.
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