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Tag Archives: USDA
Indiana-Based Co-Op Demonstrates Clean Energy Leadership, Foresight
Wabash Valley Power, an electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative based in Indianapolis, this week demonstrated clean energy leadership and foresight, signing off on a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to be the sole buyer of electricity from a 99-megawatt … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, Biomass, Congress, distributed generation, DOE, Geothermal, green jobs, investment tax credit, production tax credit, renewable energy, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Solar Energy, sustainability, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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Clean Energy Stakeholders Need to Keep Lawmakers Honest on Budget
There’s something unfortunately familiar about the fiscal 2019 budget proposal released by the White House this week: It bears the same draconian cuts to clean energy programs the Trump administration sought last year. The proposal makes even clearer the Trump … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, agricultural adaptation, anaerobic digestion, BCAP, bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol, distributed generation, DOE, energy efficiency, energy security, ethanol, Geothermal, green jobs, Hydropower, REAP, Solar Energy, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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Congress Must Reject White House Budget Plan, Support Rural America
The 25x’25 Alliance joined multiple other energy, farm and rural America advocacy groups Tuesday in expressing our extreme disappointment with President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal 2018. The spending plan proposed by the White House, however, does not come as … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, agricultural adaptation, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol, Congress, conservation, distributed generation, DOE, energy efficiency, EPA, ethanol, farm bill, Geothermal, green jobs, House of Representatives, Hydropower, investment tax credit, national security, production tax credit, renewable energy, Senate, Solar Energy, sustainability, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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USDA Re-Organization Must Align with 21st Century U.S. Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s plan for reorganizing USDA, which is now subject to a public comment period that ends June 14, would create an under secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, realign department agencies under an under secretary … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, agricultural adaptation, agroforestry, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, Biofuels, carbon sequestration, cellulosic ethanol, Congress, conservation, distributed generation, DOE, energy security, ethanol, farm bill, Geothermal, green jobs, Hydropower, investment tax credit, national security, no-till, production tax credit, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Solutions from the Land, sustainability, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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Perdue Confirmation Hearing Underscores Role of Ag in the 21st Century
Today a confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, is finally taking place. Assuming he is eventually confirmed by the Senate, he will take the helm of a federal agency whose constituencies and … Continue reading
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Clean Energy Programs Can Help Meet Goals Espoused by the President
President Trump was generally lauded for the tone of his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, when he offered a more positive and optimistic assessment of the nation’s future than he had in his inaugural address or … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, air quality, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol, Congress, distributed generation, DOE, energy security, EPA, ethanol, farm bill, Geothermal, green jobs, Hydropower, investment tax credit, national security, renewable energy, soil quality, Solar Energy, sustainability, USDA, Wind Energy, wood to energy
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USDA Analysis Reaffirms Ethanol Benefits; Caps Vilsack Clean Energy Legacy
Understandably those in the ethanol industry responded to USDA’s research released last week demonstrating the emissions-reducing benefits of ethanol by saying: “Yeah, that’s what we’ve been telling you for years!” Be assured that industry leaders were elated by the report, … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, advanced biofuels, bioenergy, Biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, Congress, ethanol, food versus fuel, green jobs, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Fuel Standard, sustainability, Tom Vilsack, USDA
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Renewable Energy – A Major Economic Engine for Rural America
Since 9/11, this country – including more than half of the states – has taken significant steps to achieve the 25x’25 renewable energy goal. Over that time, sustained growth in renewable energy has been an economic boon to rural America, … Continue reading
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Solutions from the Land: A New Way Forward
As the incoming administration contemplates the path forward for America’s energy, agriculture, conservation and climate polices, it will be important to carefully assess the role that farms, ranches and forests – our nation’s working lands – can play in meeting … Continue reading
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Tagged 25x'25, agricultural adaptation, agroforestry, bioenergy, carbon sequestration, carbon sink, farm bill, green jobs, Solutions from the Land, sustainability, USDA
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Texas Ascension to Renewable Energy Leadership Makes Good Economic Sense
The trend in national media circles reporting on renewable energy advances in Texas often characterizes the progress and development as a somewhat curious happening, given the state’s leading status as an oil and natural gas producer. But leaders in Texas … Continue reading
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