saturday’s mixed bag of green news
by rd @ 8:14 am 2 comments »
- Markets for endangered species have to be closed. Poachers Nabbed With 300 Endangered Sea Turtles - msnbc
- The EPA’s “cap and trade” program makes breathing urban air a risky endeavor. EPA Issues Controversial Air Particulate Ruling - msnbc
- An upcoming car show will try to make green the new sexy. Sexy Green Car Show - bbc
- Teddy get over it. We’re all going to be faced with sacrifice. Cape Wind Project Not Off My Back Porch - abc
- Environmental Working Group’s not too happy about upsurge in corn subsidies. Farmers Head to Fields to Plant Corn, Lot’s of It - nytimes
- Bees are taking a major hit. Climate Change Zaps Canadian Bees - afp/yahoo!
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um, upsurge in corn subsidies?
See Business Week- Food Vs. Fuel article
“Corn farmers are having a rare period of prosperity, and the federal government is getting a break. In 2006, Uncle Sam gave corn farmers $8.8 billion in subsidies. Thanks to high corn prices, subsidies are expected to drop to $2.1 billion in 2007. ”
See, when farmers plant more, subsidies go down. And then there’s the financial stimuli to local economies, etc Tax revenues coming in, makes this a sound investment. Beats giving subsidies to Big OIl who don’t give anything back to us, offshore their accounts and have no allegiance to anyone but the bottom line.
So one can never be too clear where the NYTimes gets its numbers.
Makes sense that subsidies go down when corn prices go up.