Farm Groups Prevail as House Climate Bill Puts USDA in Charge of Ag Offsets

The Agriculture Department will have the lead role in overseeing agriculture offsets under the House climate bill, a major victory for farm groups that pushed lawmakers to take the lead away from U.S. EPA and a defeat for environmental groups that fear the agriculture agency may be too lax in oversight. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 29, 2009

The farmers are getting some pork. The authors seem to be struggling to make the USDA provisions sound reasonable.

The carbon sequestration ideas are off target. We need to put our money into burning less carbon rather than working to store it. Conservation, wind, and solar should be getting the funds.

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