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A strike against global warming or a Big Ag giveaway? Evan Halper © Provided by The LA Times Farmworkers weed a tomato field in the San Joaquin Valley. The Biden administration is considering a "carbon bank" program that would include paying farmers to use strategies that could potentially help reduce emissions. (Max Whittaker) Dominic Bruno is not closely tracking the greenhouse gas soaking into the dirt beneath the walnut trees, sunflowers and melon vines at River Garden Farms in Yolo County, where the state of California spent $97,000 this year to create a 15,000-acre em...

Millions of people in the US are drinking water that fails to meet federal health standards, including by violating limits for dangerous contaminants. Latinos are disproportionately exposed, according to the Guardian’s review of more than 140,000 public water systems across the US and county-level demographic data. Water systems in counties that are 25% or more Latino are violating drinking water contamination rules at twice the rate of those in...

Environmental Working Group analysis finds 1% of farm aid recipients collected 23% of subsidies in 2019.