Several agricultural leaders will join Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson as panelists before a Senate Ag Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington. NFU President Roger Johnson will present the organization's climate change priorities and concerns including the following provisions as a starting point for consideration:
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture is granted control and administration of the agricultural and forestry offset program; • Early actors are fully recognized; • No artificial cap is placed on domestic offsets; • Offset credits for carbon sequestration rates are based upon science; • Producers are permitted to stack environmental benefit credits; • Establishment of a static baseline; and • Limiting leakage analysis to the confines of the United States.
Before testifying Johnson spoke with Farm Futures' Jason Vance. To listen that exclusive conversation, click HERE.
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