Environmental Working Group Analysis: As Climate Crisis Accelerated, 10 Mississippi River Basin Counties Raked in $3B in Crop Insurance Payouts
February 25, 2022
February 25, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Feb. 25 (TNSRes) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release:
Ten counties in the Mississippi River basin received over $3 billion in crop insurance payments between 2001 and 2020, much of it for losses caused by extreme weather tied to the climate crisis, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis of Department of Agriculture data.
Those counties are among the insurance payout hot spots identified by EWG . . .
Ten counties in the Mississippi River basin received over $3 billion in crop insurance payments between 2001 and 2020, much of it for losses caused by extreme weather tied to the climate crisis, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis of Department of Agriculture data.
Those counties are among the insurance payout hot spots identified by EWG . . .