A variety of federal, state, and local agencies outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) support or regulate agricultural production.
We examine the most important programs and policies among these agencies in this chapter, offering a wide range of recommendations designed to reduce emissions and expand carbon farming.
We begin with a summary of the federal government’s regulatory options. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate methane and nitrous oxide emissions from many agricultural operations, regulating only the relatively few largest facilities could address the vast majority of the pollution without affecting the vast majority of producers.1 Congress can also reform the rewnewable fuel standard and pass legislation regulating fertilizer manufacturers through efficiency standards or other measures. In addition, state and local governments can also stop the most harmful agricultural practices using similar approaches to those available to the federal government.The public sector also provides significant benefits to farms through a number of non-regulatory avenues outside of traditional farm programs. We identify policy pathways to reform tax policy, the Small Business Administration (SBA) subsidized lending programs, and biogas subsidies. We conclude the chapter by examining the government’s role in greenhouse gas pricing (usually focused solely on carbon dioxide from the power and industrial sectors) and other market approaches.
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- Congress’ expressed purpose for supporting agricultural research and extension is not only to increase the productivity of agriculture,7 but also to “[maintain and enhance] the natural resource base on which rural America and the United States agricultural economy depend.”8
- This chapter begins by describing how the climate crisis threatens to disrupt agricultural production at immense cost to society.
- Chapter VI. Public Policy Pathways Beyond USDA for Advancing Climate-Neutral Agriculture
- Methane and nitrous oxide are the two main greenhouse gases emitted by agricultural sources. EPA has several direct regulatory tools available to reduce emissions of these greenhouse gases, including recognizing the harm or “endangerment” caused by these pollutants and promulgating regulatory programs to require or support their reduction.
- This book has surveyed a great deal of work on the state and reflects the views of a variety of different authors.
- In August of 2018, Missouri became the first state in the United States to regulate the labeling of artificial meat, with a statute defining meat as something “derived from harvested production livestock or poultry.”1
- 3. State-Level Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- The ‘federal deficit’ at play at the beginning of the modern Canadian federal odyssey, in 1864-7, has been thoroughly analysed since K. C.
- 4. Farm Finance and Support
- 1. Emissions From Fertilizer Production
- 1. Federal Research Programs
- A Variety of Penalties
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