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ANWR of the heartland, revisited
WaPo's misguided call to scale back the Conservation Reserve Program |
Tom Philpott |
21 Jul 2008 |
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| Back in April, it already seemed obvious: Spooked by skyrocketing prices for corn, soy, and wheat, policymakers would push to put as much land as possible in the Midwest under the plow, environmental consequences be damned. One of the first policy levers, I figured, would involve gutting the Conservation Reserve Program. The CRP is a federal scheme that pays farmers to take ecologically fragile land out of production -- an act which benefits society but would otherwis ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, Department of Agriculture, food (all these topics) |
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