The Farm Bureau: Fighting Climate Science and Policy

The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally 

Fighting Climate Science and Policy

While big oil and gas companies provided the cash for anti-regulation campaigns, the farm lobby offered up a sympathetic face: the American farmer. 

BY NEELA BANERJEE, GEORGINA 

GUSTIN, JOHN H. CUSHMAN JR.

When Republican Rep. Steve Scalise stepped to the dais in the U.S. House of Representatives in July and implored his colleagues to denounce a carbon tax, he didn't reach for dire predictions made by the fossil fuel titans that pushed for the resolution.

Instead, he talked about America's farmers.

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