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Harvesting Climate Benefits from the 2024 Farm Bill

Acoel

2 – Knowledge Underlies Agriculture’s Climate Success Public agricultural research focuses on critical, widely-shared knowledge , yet public funding for agricultural research was cut by a third from 2002 to 2019. The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program.  Taxpayers fund over 60% of the premiums.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. When I started working on biofuel policy back in 2008, there was a lot of criticism of corn ethanol because in some cases it had lifecycle emissions higher than gasoline. Officially CARB claims that the LCFS includes no offset program.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. 27] US Global Change Research Program, US Government, “Fourth National climate Assessment, Chapter 10: Agriculture and Rural Communities,” 2017. [28] MacCracken, P.R.