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Reuters Environmental Online Report | 2009-07-27 14:21:35
<div><p>JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia may cut subsidies for fossil fuels and introduce policies requiring state electricity firm PLN to use renewable energy sources for part of its supply within a year, a senior environment official said Monday.</p><p>Ranked the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in a 2007 ...
AFP American Edition | 2009-06-09 14:00:22
<div><p>The United States has said it is committed to outlining a new basis for negotiations over the stalled Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks by August.</p><p>US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said on Tuesday Washington endorsed calls from the Cairns Group of major agricultural exporters for ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-05-10 06:00:22
<div><p>France may be the biggest country beneficiary of generous EU farm subsidies, but the most individual multi-million-euro hand-outs go to companies in Italy and Spain, according to a study last week.</p><p>The three biggest pay-outs last year went to two Italian sugar companies and a low-profile Milan-based ...
AP News | 2009-04-14 22:59:54
<div id="subtitle">AP IMPACT: Amid drought, feds pay farmers to till arid land; some politicians are steamed</div><div><p>As drought forces families in the West to shorten their showers and let their lawns turn brown, two Depression-era government programs have been paying some of the nation's biggest farms ...
