As signs of a new drought loom over California farm country and a potential return of last spring’s catastrophic floods haunts the Midwestern corn belt, Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is out with a new plan to ready US agriculture for the insults of climate change. Called the Agriculture Resilience Act, the bill would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their soil to sponge up carbon dioxide.
What Would It Take To Get More Farmers Fighting Climate Change?
Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
Wed, 02/26/2020 - 8:00am
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