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Database of Demand Management Actions Under SGMA Goes Live
Demand management – policies that alter the incentives of water users in ways that encourage conservation – will be necessary to achieve groundwater sustainability under California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). A key feature of the state's approach to SGMA is that local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies are each allowed to develop their own plans for achieving sustainable groundwater use, allowing for local flexibility and experimentation.
Incentivizing Conservation Outcomes On Farmland
By Patricia Patnode Harry Huntley’s essay offers some specific suggestions for how to incentivize conservation results on American farmland. This is an especially pressing issue because most modern industrial farming practices, often driven by the demand for specific crops like ethanol corn, involve heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as well as large-scale irrigation.
Farmers, Cover Up With Cover Crops
Perpetual two crop rotations are environmentally destructive, yet incentivized by government subsidies. Soil erosion is a growing problem. To preempt heavy handed regulation when we eventually reach a soil-health crisis, we should release the crop market from captivity. Farmers respond to market prices, the government should be mindful of distorting incentives.
Phony Demand and Underpopulation: Problems Plaguing American Farmers
Status quo bias weighs heavily on our policy debates. The United States of America is a major global power, and Canada is not. The most talented and ambitious people from around the world — including from Canada itself — are more likely to make their way to New York, Los Angeles, or Silicon Valley to seek their fortunes than they are to go to Toronto or Vancouver. This in part reflects the fact that the United States is among the richest countries in the world.
Innovation and Stagnation: Ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard
The 20th century saw incredible strides in agricultural innovation, with major technological improvements revolutionizing the whole supply chain from the seed to the supermarket. Many of these innovations were made possible by combining private and public investment through institutions like the cooperative extension system. Indeed, these new developments enabled the yield improvements that made the last century’s unprecedented population and economic growth possible.
The Renewable Fuel Standard Is Killing the Environment
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this year’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, where oxygen levels are so low that sea life is killed or maimed, was larger than three U.S. states. One significant cause is agricultural runoff jettisoned from the Mississippi River, which feeds the massive algal blooms whose decomposition depletes water oxygen. Like many other ongoing environmental problems affecting the Midwest, this one is aggravated by the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The Renewable Fuel Standard is killing the environment
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this year’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, where oxygen levels are so low that sea life is killed or maimed, was larger than three U.S. states. One significant cause is agricultural runoff jettisoned from the Mississippi River, which feeds the massive algal blooms whose decomposition depletes water oxygen. Like many other ongoing environmental problems affecting the Midwest, this one is aggravated by the Renewable Fuel Standard.
APPA opinion on electric rates misses mark, retail choice better for customers: Opposition
Opinion Author By Michael Giberson and Arthur R. Wardle Published June 14, 2019 The following is a contributed article from Michael Giberson, Associate Professor of Practice in Business Economics at Texas Tech University and Arthur R. Wardle, a CGO Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.
Modifications to Fuel Regulations to Provide Flexibility for E15 and to Elements of the Renewable Identification Number Compliance System
The Blend Wall Constrains EPA’s Ability to Require Additional Ethanol Blending Under the RFS Numerous roadblocks prevent the consumer fuels industry from selling substantially more ethanol. Among these are consumer disinterest in purchasing flex fuel vehicles that can run on higher ethanol blends, the large portion of the US vehicle fleet that cannot use ethanol blends in excess of 15% (E15) or even 10% (E10), and the lack of widespread fueling infrastructure to supply potential E85 customers.
Reducing the Ethanol Mandate is Smart Environmental Policy
Following the boom in oil production from the hydraulic fracturing revolution, environmental protection outstripped energy independence as the major selling point of US biofuels policy. The ethanol mandate continues to grow and includes 15 billion gallons that can be met using ethanol made from corn. All of that corn ethanol, despite being a renewable fuel resource, does not deliver the environmental benefits hoped for by early biofuel advocates.
CAFE Standards Vs. Economics – InsideSources
The announcement of plans to ease the nation’s fuel economy standards (known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, or CAFE) triggered numerous defenses of the regulation. CAFE, which began as a program to reduce oil consumption, is now almost always justified on environmental grounds. Fuel economy standards do succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but market responses to fuel efficiency hikes make the policies less effective.
The ethanol mandate has failed in its original purpose
Corn industry lobbyists are pressuring Congress to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from waiving so many refineries’ compliance obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The RFS requires that refiners mix certain amounts of ethanol into their gasoline; the waivers exempt small refineries facing economic hardships from having to meet the mandate.
Op-ed: Time to free America from the Antiquities Act
President Trump’s reductions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments are unsurprisingly controversial. Local communities that have decried the monuments’ effects on their economies and livelihoods are sure to rejoice; monument advocates will rue the loss. At this point, both sides should agree that the president holds too much power over national monuments.
CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives
Manufacturers and importers of vehicles sold in the U.S. are subject to federal fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards. In addition, California and nine other states have imposed more-stringent standards and require a minimum proportion of vehicles to have “zero” emissions. The stated objectives of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards are: (1) to reduce fuel consumption and (2) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The Abandoned Mine Land fund should not be treated as a slush fund
Big money attracts big interests in Washington, D.C. The Abandoned Mine Land fund (AML), which collects and disburses billions of dollars to reclaim abandoned coal mines, is no exception. Congress, unions and other special interests have repeatedly attempted to tap into the fund’s large reserves for their own benefit. Congress is currently attempting to throw funding mean for abandoned mines toward “economic revitalization,” which would threaten the fund’s reclamation objective.
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President Donald Trump recently removed the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, heralded by many as a major win for global climate action. The Paris Climate Agreement, signed during the Obama administration, attempted to include the entire world and managed to amass 195 signatories.
Trump didn’t kill the Paris climate deal - it was already dead
President Trump recently removed the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, heralded by many as a major win for global climate action. The Paris Climate Agreement, signed during the Obama administration, attempted to include the entire world and managed to amass 195 signatories.
Environment suffers as union diverts funds to clean deserted mine sites
The Abandoned Mine Land fund (AML) is America’s source of funding for reclaiming abandoned coal mines, especially those causing environmental damage. Financed through a tax on coal production, the AML was set up by Congress to serve that goal alone. Since its 1977 passage, however, numerous interest groups have managed to jockey for a piece of the fund.
Why renewables alone cannot meet our energy needs
When Germany met all but 0.3 gigawatts (GWs) of its peak energy demand for a few hours using renewables this May, the excitement generated a lot of headlines. The headlines missed key details, though — during that time, Germany's fossil fuel plants were still producing 7.7 GWs. The excess had to be sold to neighboring countries on the cheap.
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