NASDA SENDS CLIMATE CHANGE LETTER TO PELOSI
News Date June 08, 2009
On June 3, NASDA President Ron Sparks sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging her to ensure the House Committee on Agriculture has the opportunity to review and amend the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), the climate change legislation currently in the House.
The bill, which already passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is under the jurisdictional authority of nine committees in all, including Chairman Collin Peterson’s (D-MN) agriculture panel. There are many issues, including an inadequate domestic offset program, which still need to be addressed in the bill. At time of publication, the House Committee on Agriculture has only scheduled a hearing to simply discuss the legislation this Thursday afternoon (June 11). (Contact: David Hickey and Nathan Bowen)