Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - June 17, 2016

House Bill Could Help Small and Mid-Size Dairies Deal with Excess Nutrients

On June 16, Representative Tom Reed (R-NY) and Ron Kind (D-WI) along with 12 Republican and Democratic co-sponsors introduced the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act (H.R. 5489), which would expand the eligibility of biogas systems under the Investment Tax Credit (ITC), a 30 percent tax credit for eligible renewable technologies.  Currently, the ITC extends only to biogas systems which use the produced methane as electricity, whereas H.R. 5489 would extend the 30 percent tax credit to biogas that is put into natural gas pipelines and used as compressed renewable natural gas in vehicles.  Increasingly, nutrient management is a significant problem on farms – particularly those with livestock or dairy operations – but the economics often don’t work to install nutrient management systems.

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Headlines

1. Power Plants Are No Longer America’s Biggest Climate Problem. Transportation Is. 

2. Ethanol, Bioenergy No Threat to Food Security: Report 

3. U.S. House Panel to Review RFS ‘Implementation Issues’ on June 22 

4. Climate Impacts From Farming Are Getting Worse 

5. Nissan to Develop Ethanol-Based Fuel Cell Technology by 2020

 

 

 

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