Renewed focus on climate legislation could help biofuels
The biofuel industry argues that President-elect Joe Biden can also make progress on his climate goals by expanding biofuel usage mandates, embracing a low carbon fuel policy and increasing vehicle emissions standards. 5:30 am, Jan. 17, 2021 ×
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Now that Democrats have won control of the Senate, climate legislation is inevitable, and farm groups have to get involved in the debate, says Chandler Goule, CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers and a former Democratic congressional staffer.
“We’ve got to make sure that agriculture is part of the solution, Goule said in a Washington Week in Review interview with Agri-Pulse. It’s not if climate legislation is coming, it’s when. So we might as well just get over whether this is going to happen or not,”
Roberts’ farewell speech calls for the U.S. Senate to rebuild bridges
As a Marine, a former journalist and member of Congress, Pat Roberts has helped his country in a multitude of ways. If you have lived anywhere in the U.S., as a farmer, rancher, grower, businessman or consumer, you’ve likely been touched in some way by his actions and influence. 5:30 am, Dec. 20, 2020 ×
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says he has counseled the Trump administration to help pass the United States Mexico Trade Agreement as quickly as possible to blunt damage to American farm interests. Photo taken April 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Mikkel Pates / Agweek)