"While big oil and gas companies provided the cash for anti-regulation campaigns, the farm lobby offered up a sympathetic face: the American farmer."
"When Republican Rep. Steve Scalise stepped to the dais in the U.S. House of Representatives in July and implored his colleagues to denounce a carbon tax, he didn't reach for dire predictions made by the fossil fuel titans that pushed for the resolution.
Instead, he talked about America's farmers.
"Why don't we listen to what the American Farm Bureau Federation said about a carbon tax?" the Louisiana congressman said, holding up a letter from the group, the nation's largest farm lobby. "'Agriculture is an energy-intensive sector, and a carbon tax levied on farmers and ranchers would be devastating,'" he read.
Harvesting Peril: Extreme weather and climate change on the American farm. An ICN series.
Advocacy groups with close ties to the oil billionaires Charles and David Koch had urged House leaders to get the anti-tax resolution approved."
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