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NG, natural gas. —lead researcher Jason Hill, associate professor at the University of Minnesota (UMN) College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. This paper also estimates life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn production, finding total climatechange damages of $4.9 Hill et al.
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