House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson told feed industry executives on Monday that carbon cap and trade legislation was effectively "dead" in Congress, according to the MinnPost. The Senate is short of votes for "any significant climate change measure at all" and "environmental lobbyists are scaling back their efforts on a large-scale climate bill because they too have come to privately accept that it won't happen this year."
The EPA, however, will now try to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act. The EPA ruled in 2009 that greenhouse gases endangered human health, which "paves the way for regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act."
Peterson and MO Rep. Ike Skelton proposed a measure that would forbid the EPA from regulating carbon under the Clean Air Act, but this legislation did not make it to the floor.
To read the FarmPolicy.com post, click here.
To read the MinnPost story, click here.
Posted: 08/25/2010
