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What role will agriculture play in the next climate bill?
Reports out of Washington indicate that revamped climate legislation could be introduced in the Senate by late April. Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman have spent the past several months crafting the new bill. They have apparently scrapped the controversial “cap and trade” concept contained in the previous climate change bill. In its place would be a new approach that addresses emissions by the utilities, manufacturing and transportation sectors differently, rather than capping nationwide emissions and allowing emitters to trade allowances. Just what role agriculture will play in the new plan is still unknown. But Nebraska Farmers Union president John Hansen, who also chairs the National Farmers Union’s legislative committee, says they have been providing input to the three senators.
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