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The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 11

National Law Center

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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

The new biogas subsidization frenzy brings to mind past failures attempting to jumpstart a market for crop-based biofuels. As earlier as 2012, studies evaluated the applicability of greenhouse gas emissions trading programs to agriculture.

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Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional

National Law Center

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NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. grain dealer statutes

National Law Center

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

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. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

SB 1122 (2012) broadly promotes bioenergy, and requires 90 megawatts of production specifically from agricultural sources – providing an early incentive for use of dairy digester gas. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.