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Climate Legislation; Biofuels; Animal Agriculture; and Dairy Issues
Climate Legislation
Dan Looker reported on Friday at Agriculture Online that, “Almost universal disappointment.
“That’s the best way to describe how ag groups reacted this week to a cap and trade bill introduced in the Senate by the Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who heads the Foreign Relations Committee.
“‘We opposed the House bill and we think this bill basically takes one step back from that,’ Rick Krause, the American Farm Bureau lobbyist working in clean air issues told Agriculture Online” [in a press release from Friday, the Farm Bureau articulated its opposition to the Boxer-Kerry bill].
Posted by Keith Good • October, 5, 2009 • 4:02 am 