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Tuesday, April 08, 2025
The Biden administration has made a concerted effort to reach out to Black and other underserved farmers through USDA, but some advocates say there is a general lack of trust in working with federal agencies.
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.
The Democratic presidential candidates are rallying around a carbon tax as a central solution to climate change, but putting the idea into law will mean overcoming concerns of farm groups about the tax’s intended goal - raising the cost of fossil fuels.
Bieber Republican Brian Dahle spoke with Agri-Pulse about applying the perspective of a farmer and small business owner to lawmaking at the state capitol.
Climate change and regulation of greenhouse gases are hot topics in Washington again, and Democratic presidential candidates are pledging to make them major issues in the 2020 election. That’s raising questions for the first time in a decade about the role that farmers could be asked to play in reducing carbon emissions, and how growers could benefit.