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Coal Subsidies Dispute; Illinois Coal Miners Worried; Up to 90% US Could be Fed with Local Food
Rich world struggles to resolve row over coal subsidies. Rich nations are stubbornly divided ahead of talks in Paris on Thursday to seek a deal to phase out coal subsidies in a foretaste of the difficulty of agreeing on action to curb global warming at a U.N. summit later this year.
Illinois coal miners fret over new round of federal regulations. To hear coal miners tell it, it’s the U.S. Department of the Interior that may actually deliver the “knockout punch” to a coal industry hobbled by natural gas competition and the Environmental Protection Agency’s air regulations.
In US Up To 90% Could Be Fed Entirely Locally. New farmland-mapping research shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes.
