RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH Editor, Times-Dispatch: Amid the bad news of the pandemic and the struggles we are having on so many fronts, there is some good progress in regard to mitigating global warming. Our federal legislators have introduced a bipartisan bill, The Growing Climate Solutions Act, which would establish a U.S. Department of Agriculture program to help farmers, ranchers and foresters im... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger today voted with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a funding package that would expand funding for rural broadband internet projects, strengthen support for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and protect Central Virginia’s natural resources. In March 2020, Spanberger led a coalition of more than 80 De... Read more »
VIRGINIA MERCURY, ALLISON STEVENS and JACOB FISCHLER Major environmental legislation sailed through Congress Wednesday while the nation’s political leaders were stuck in intense negotiations over the contours of a fifth coronavirus relief package. The bill would provide $9.5 billion over five years to pay down the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog and provide permanent funding at $900 mi... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger — Chair of the House Agriculture Committee’s Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee — today voted with a strongly bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass legislation that would grant full, permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The Spanberger-cosponsored Great American Outdoors Act would ... Read more »
AGRIPULSE Congress is set to return to Washington next week, and passing additional coronavirus relief legislation will be at the top of the agenda. In this video, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., talks with Agri-Pulse about what she hopes to see in the aid package as well as her work on carbon credit legislation. Read more »
VPM, PATRICK LARSEN On Friday, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Glen Allen) proposed the Growing Climate Solutions Act. The bipartisan legislation aims to help farmers and foresters get involved in carbon trading, the practice of buying and selling permits - or credits - to emit carbon dioxide. Those credits are intended to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with market-based incent... Read more »
POLITICO, NICK JULIANO and CATHERINE BOUDREAU House Agriculture Committee members Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) are introducing legislation today aimed at legitimizing carbon markets for farmers. The bill would grant USDA the authority to certify organizations that measure farms’ greenhouse gas emissions reductions, which growers could sell as carbon offsets. Introduction of th... Read more »
HOARD'S DAIRYMAN Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hosted a hearing on the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, where prominent agricultural leaders urged passage of the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act. U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Mike Braun (R-IN), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Fore... Read more »
HENRICO, V.A. – U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) today joined U.S. Representative Don Bacon (R-NE-02) to announce plans to introduce the Growing Climate Solutions Act in the U.S. House. Introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the bill seeks to help farmers, ranchers, and foresters participate in the voluntary carbon market by establis... Read more »
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, CHRIS CLAYTON GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday heard about the need for farmers, ranchers and foresters to benefit from conservation practices through environmental markets. Leaders from farm groups and one of the country's largest farmer cooperatives testified on the Growing Climate Solutions act, a bill that would create a progr... Read more »
