Insuring desert farms against heat-related losses is bad policy

Research released in June by the Environmental Working Group shows that since 2001, heat linked to climate change has driven $1.33 billion in insurance payouts to farmers across the Southwest for crops that failed amid high temperatures. As Stephen Robert Miller writes in FERN’s latest story, published with The New Republic, “payments resulting from the… » Read More

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