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  • Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change

    10/29/2015 11:37:43 AM PDT · by QT3.14 · 32 replies
    Washington Times ^ | October 28, 2015 | Jennifer Pompi
    How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department’s website, becoming part of the “more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.”