Growing Climate Solutions Act

The National Milk Producers Federation commended Congress this week for including the Growing Climate Solutions Act and the SUSTAINS Act in its final fiscal year 2023 budget package.   The measures, NMPF said, will help dairy producers seek additional sustainability opportunities as they work to fulfill the dairy sector’s voluntary, producer-led goal of becoming greenhouse gas neutral or better by

Renewable energy will once again be a top farm issue this year, as Congress and the Administration grapple with climate and sustainability needs. “We’re going to also focus on renewable energy; US biofuels play an important role.” The Am ...

A bipartisan climate bill supported by several food and agriculture groups is making its way through Congress. Andrew Walmsley, director of congressional relations with the American Farm Bureau, called the Growing Climate Solutions Act a remarkable bill ...

The top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee opposes the Growing Climate Solutions Act passed by the Senate last week. Representative Glenn G.T. Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said the bill is a “big-government solution in search of a problem." Th ...

Perhaps it’s fitting that supporters of voluntary private carbon market legislation will make a second run at the idea, as the Senate Ag Committee plans to vote on the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, Thursday, Earth Day. The ...

Farm groups offered their support this week for a climate bill that would give farmers access to carbon offset markets during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday. The Growing Climate Solutions Act would create a certification program at the Department of Agriculture to help solve technical barriers to participation in carbon credit markets for farmers and forest landowners ... Read