The National Agricultural Law Center is announcing a new Research Publication on “States’ Biofuels Statutory Citations,” and the website provides a link to federal statutes for comparison. Additionally, the National Agricultural Law Center is announcing a Research Publication on state climate change statutes and citations entitled, “Climate Change Statutes.”The introductions on the websites where the research is available read—Biofuels:
“Each state in the United States has enacted statutes relating to biofuels. These statutes vary from tax incentives for biofuel production to labeling of biofuel for resale to the very definition of a biofuel.” To that end, the National Agricultural Law Center (National AgLaw Center) is announcing a new Center Research Publication on States’ Biofuels Statutory Citations.
“This compilation of state statutory citations focuses predominantly on biofuels laws in effect January 1, 1970 through December 31, 2007. In some instances, regulations have been included in the compilation due to their significance. This compilation is intended to serve as a researcher-friendly inventory of state laws by providing the formal title of relevant legislation, the standard legal citation for each statute and a brief description of the law.”
Climate Change:
“Global climate change is an area many state governments and the federal government are working towards combating. Currently thirty-seven states and the federal government have specific statutes to monitor and counter the effects of global climate change. These statutes range from greenhouse gas monitoring to the creation of regional carbon markets to carbon sequestration programs. This compilation is provided as a researcher-friendly resource guide for examining how states and federal government are combating global climate change. The statutory citations provided below include laws in effect between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 2008.”
These statutes can be found under the Major Statutes section of the Climate Change Reading Room. The Biofuels statutes can be found under the Major Statutes section of the Renewable Energy Reading Room. The site also provides a link to compare the state statutes with federal biofuel statutory citations, or click here to see these citations now. To do the same for climate change click here.
The project to put the biofuels statutes and citations together was undertaken as a joint project between the National AgLaw Center and the US Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Chief Economist, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. Working on the biofuel project for the National AgLaw Center was Staff Attorney Shannon Mirus, Research Associate Paul Goeringer, and Research Assistant Kerri Boling. Working on the climate change project for the National AgLaw Center was Research Associate Paul Goeringer and Research Assistant Kerri Boling.
To see the climate change statutes click here.
To see the biofuels statutes click here.
Posted: 12/09/09
