Rust Belt uneasy over climate plan

The government's effort to curb climate-changing pollution is viewed widely through an economic prism in the nation's heartland.

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Food, famine & climate change: India’s scorched earth. Suicide is the latest epidemic among farming communities as climate change parches the heart of India, destroying agriculture and plunging the poorest families into crippling debt. [News Source]

Yemen water crisis builds. An estimated 150,000 Yemenis have left their villages this year bound for Sana, Yemen's capital, in search of basic needs. Water and jobs, for example, are increasingly scarce in rural regions where many populations have quadrupled since the 1980s. [News Source]

Food, famine & climate change: How we feed the world on 85p. As successive droughts and financial turmoil push a billion people worldwide to the brink of starvation, Plumpy'nut, a fast-food wonder snack, is quietly saving children's lives [News Source]

Clean energy splits France. Over the centuries, Mont-Saint-Michel-- an iconic shrine on the Normandy coast-- has seen more than its share of battles. The latest skirmish involves opposing camps of environmentalists, jousting over the wisdom of installing windmill farms to turn sea breezes into clean energy. [News Source]

Enviros waging ‘orchestrated pressure campaign’ on climate bill—U.S. Chamber CEO. Tom Donohue charged that defections of high-profile companies from his group are part of an "orchestrated pressure campaign" by environmental groups and signaled that his influential business association won't shift its stance on climate change policy. [News Source]

Environmental groups respond sharply to their ouster. The battle waged against a major coal company by Hopi and Navajo activists and against large environmental groups by tribal officials has intensified the conflict playing out in northern Arizona over the control, preservation and use of cultural and natural resources. [News Source]

Food, famine & climate change: India’s scorched earth. Suicide is the latest epidemic among farming communities as climate change parches the heart of India, destroying agriculture and plunging the poorest families into crippling debt. [News Source]

Yemen water crisis builds. An estimated 150,000 Yemenis have left their villages this year bound for Sana, Yemen's capital, in search of basic needs. Water and jobs, for example, are increasingly scarce in rural regions where many populations have quadrupled since the 1980s. [News Source]

Food, famine & climate change: How we feed the world on 85p. As successive droughts and financial turmoil push a billion people worldwide to the brink of starvation, Plumpy'nut, a fast-food wonder snack, is quietly saving children's lives [News Source]

Clean energy splits France. Over the centuries, Mont-Saint-Michel-- an iconic shrine on the Normandy coast-- has seen more than its share of battles. The latest skirmish involves opposing camps of environmentalists, jousting over the wisdom of installing windmill farms to turn sea breezes into clean energy. [News Source]