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• Ranking Ag Members Have Questions for Vilsack

  —The Westerner

  The Ranking Members of the House and Senate Ag Committees have questions about remarks made by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack this week regarding USDA's climate change legislation analysis. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Representative Frank Lucas, R-Okla., say the Secretary's statement implies a lack of confidence in the modeling used [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:47am EST
  

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• Senators say global warming bill will harm agriculture

  —The Westerner

  U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) today raised issue with testimony delivered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Chief Economist Dr. Joseph Glauber before a House Agriculture Committee hearing last week on the economic impacts of pending climate change legislation. The Senators have repeatedly said Waxman-Markey and [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:41am EST
  

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• Cap-and-Tax Bad for Farmers, Rural America

  —The Westerner

  This week the Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research held two important hearings to learn more about the economic impact of climate change legislation. Witnesses at the hearing included the chief economist from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as members of academia. They highlighted and discussed [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:45am EST
  

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• Backlash by sceptics gains ground after 'Climategate'

  —The Westerner

  The resurgent climate sceptic movement claimed its first political scalp this week when Australia's opposition Liberal party dumped its leader, Malcolm Turnbull, over his support for the federal government's climate change legislation. At the same time the sceptics have been making hay with the "Climategate scandal" - the release a [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:33am EST
  

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• Pine Beetles Not a Good Reason for Climate Change Legislation

  —The Westerner

  Last week Senator Max Baucus joined several mainstream environmentalists in adding pine beetle outbreaks to a long list of things that can be blamed on climate change. Baucus is referring to the recent breakout of pine beetles in Montana. These insects bore their way into pine tress and lay their [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:54am EST
  

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• Climate Bill Likely on the Shelf For Rest of the Year

  —The Westerner

  Key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change legislation this year, the strongest indication yet that a comprehensive bill to cut greenhouse-gas emissions won't be voted on until at least next year. Although the Senate Environment Committee last week approved' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:40am EST
  

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