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Growing green: Michigan marijuana presents water, air and energy challenges

By Quinn Zimmerman | June 21, 2019

The state’s regulators are weighing the environmental consequences of an expected expansion of marijuana production.

Agriculture

New crop could raise income, produce biofuel, limit climate change, save soil

By Becky Wildt | October 6, 2016

Once dismissed as a nuisance weed, pennycress could extend growing season with a spring harvest of biodiesel fuel.

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