National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
JUNE 4, 2025
Since the establishment of reconciliation, federal programs within the jurisdiction of the Congressional Agriculture Committees have been consistently targeted for cuts – through budget reconciliation, cuts to farm bill programs were made in 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, and 2006.
Brag
JANUARY 4, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. Bergeson and Carla N. On January 3, 2023, the U.S.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Biofuels can play a productive role when used at a sustainable level. Source EIA Monthly Biofuels Capacity and Feedstocks Update ) Using more oils and fats for fuel instead of food and animal feed has consequences for competing users of these products and for the global agricultural system. Source US Energy Information Administration.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The EPA proposes increasing the amount of biofuels in the nation’s energy supply through 2025. Biofuels Targets Rise. The EPA is proposing to increase the amount of ethanol and other biofuels in the nation’s energy supply through 2025, when the target will be 10 percent larger than today. The Rundown. Jackson Water Crisis.
Clean Energy Law
MAY 16, 2022
Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Clean Energy Law
JUNE 1, 2022
Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The “climate policies” the authors refer to are ones that would make energy more expensive and result in more bioenergy use (the burning of biofuels and biomass), which in turn would increase land scarcity and drive up food costs. The IPCC comes to the same conclusion. [74] 7] For 1990 data: U.N. 8] Xiaoping Liu et al., 9] Christopher D.
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