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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
States on the East and West coasts are crafting policies to require higher biofuel blends in place of petroleum diesel, a step that renewable and biodiesel producers believe will continue to drive growth for their products.
The California Air Resource Board’s decision to ban the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles by 2035 is likely to have an impact well beyond that state’s borders.
Governor Gavin Newsom has tapped Christy Bouma as the legislative affairs secretary in the Office of the Governor while Kristen Smith Eshaya follows her father’s footsteps and is named the new president of JV Smith Companies.
Along with zero-emission technologies like electric tractors, agriculture is generating creative ways of squeezing more efficiency and cost-effectiveness out of combustion engines, presenting new hurdles for incentives grants.
Anaerobic digesters that take manure and turn it into biomethane for the transportation sector and other industrial uses are a key part of the dairy industry’s strategy to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
A nationwide cap and trade program hasn’t been on the legislative horizon since the idea died in Congress in 2010, but government and private market developers are counting on there being a robust demand for carbon offsets from a host of corporations, including energy companies, airlines and even major food companies, that need to offset their emissions.
