Source: Helena Bottemiller Evich and Catherine Boudreau, POLITICO, 8/4/20


This week, we take up a serious climate bill in the Senate — and how America's farmers and food companies are responding differently this time. Plus, our LG Forum weighs in on "carbon offsets."
A NEW KIND OF FARMERS MARKET — Something unusual happened in Washington this summer: Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle unveiled a serious climate bill in the middle of a pandemic. The decidedly wonkish legislation, which aims to make it easier to pay farmers to capture carbon, didn’t make much of a splash...

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