{"id":520643,"date":"2010-04-08T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:31:52","slug":"john-deere-takes-hit-for-support-for-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520643","title":{"rendered":"John Deere Takes Hit for Support for Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/John_Deere.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8068\" title=\"John_Deere\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/John_Deere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFarming in many regions of the US is likely to be among<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/releases\/crop-yields-could-wilt-heat\/\" > the worst casualties of climate  change<\/a> over the next decades. So  it is an obvious, ethical, sensible and responsible move that John Deere  supports climate and energy legislation to reduce our use of  climate-changing fossil fuels, by funding renewable alternatives through  fees on polluters.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, however, Deere is being targeted by attack ads by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaigns\/global-warming-and-energy\/polluterwatch\/koch-industries\/citizens-for-a-sound-economy?mode=send\" >Freedomworks<\/a> that will be shown on  CNN, Fox News, Headline News and the History Channel.<\/p>\n<p>The lobbying group FreedomWorks is the group that created the Tea Party  movement. Based in Washington, DC, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/off-the-markley\/2010\/02\/tea-party-movement-a-bunch-of-phony-corporate-d-bags.html\" >run by Dick Armey,<\/a> a former House Republican Majority Leader who is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersaction.org\/factcheck\/200908060005\" >fossil industry lobbyist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their next target is climate legislation that threatens the fossil industry with caps on pollution. This has put John Deere squarely<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/deere-targeted-for-climate-bill-support\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenFields+%28Green+Fields+Blog%29\" > in their sites.<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/08\/john-deere-takes-hit-for-support-for-farming\/#more-8048\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming in many regions of the US is likely to be among the worst casualties of climate change over the next decades. So it is an obvious, ethical, sensible and responsible move that John Deere supports climate and energy legislation to reduce our use of climate-changing fossil fuels, by funding renewable alternatives through fees on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}