{"id":2779,"date":"2021-03-10T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/colorado-s-legal-cannabis-farms-emit-more-carbon-than-its-coal-mines\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:08","slug":"colorado-s-legal-cannabis-farms-emit-more-carbon-than-its-coal-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/colorado-s-legal-cannabis-farms-emit-more-carbon-than-its-coal-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado&#8217;s legal cannabis farms emit more carbon than its coal mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">legal<\/span> cannabis farms emit more carbon than its coal mines<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, the emissions add up to around 2.6 megatonnes of CO2e, which is more than that from the state\u2019s coal mining at 1.8 megatonnes of CO2e.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emissions that come from growing 1 ounce, depending on where it\u2019s grown in the US, is about the same as burning 7 to 16 gallons of gasoline,\u201d says Summers<\/p>\n<p>The carbon footprint of the cannabis industry is even larger than this study indicates, says Evan Mills, formerly at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, as the team didn\u2019t look at emissions associated with storage and processing.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal cannabis production is also likely to be more highly emitting, he says. \u201cThe energy profile of black-market production is distinctly different in that it frequently involves on-site diesel generators, which are often less efficient and more polluting per kilowatt-hour than grid-purchased electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2270366-colorados-legal-cannabis-farms-emit-more-carbon-than-its-coal-mines\/#ixzz6oeyC5CcE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado&#8217;s legal cannabis farms emit more carbon than its coal mines In Colorado, the emissions add up to around 2.6 megatonnes of CO2e, which is more than that from the state\u2019s coal mining at 1.8 megatonnes of CO2e. \u201cThe emissions that come from growing 1 ounce, depending on where it\u2019s grown in the US, is 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