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,”