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Free & Open Source Jobs - fossjobs.net. Rep. Kaptur Heralds Vote to Allow USDA Protections for U.S. Chicken Farmers. WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) recognized the Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture for their landmark vote for an appropriations bill that would allow the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to move forward with a proposed rule protecting the First Amendment rights of America’s chicken farmers. “Poultry farmers today suffer untold abuses at the hands of the contract poultry industry, abuses that are illegal and unconstitutional,” said Rep Kaptur. Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF. Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day, according to a startling new estimate by the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF calls the revelation “shocking” and says the figure is an “extremely robust” estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments. The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by the burning of coal, oil and gas.
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