Archives for the ‘Environment’ Category

Closer look at EPA’s Latest Renewable Fuel Standard

By Gary Baise • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Environment

The impact of new EPA rules on fuel and fuel additives



RFS2 – New Opportunities for Farmers?

By Gary Baise • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Environment

A look at the new EPA rules for renewable fuels and their impact on farmers.



Virginia v. EPA

By David Schnare • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

It is time to hit the reset button on Tenth Amendment Jurisprudence and Virginia has an opportunity make that push.



Good News: Cleaner Water

By Gary Baise • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

As farmers in the Midwest move to no-till farming, pesticide runoff is decreasing, improving the quality of water.



Control Runoff From Your Farm – or Else

By Gary Baise • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Environment

An Executive Order issued by President Obama requiring a renewed federal commitment to control all sources of pollution that run into the Chesapeake Bay is causing concern in Virginia’s farming community.



Copenhagen and Agriculture – Any Progress?

By Gary Baise • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Environment

With great fanfare President Obama went to Copenhagen and produced nothing related to agriculture.



Perchlorate May be in Your Farming Future

By Gary Baise • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Environment

EPA could declare a naturally occurring substance as indirect danger to human health – and Agriculture could pay the price



Progressive Environmentalism – The New Green is Pink?

By David Schnare • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

To solve the problems of the Chesapeake Bay, we need stewardship, which can include regulation. But we don’t need the interventionist economics that comes with progressive environmentalism.



Get Rid of Livestock! Save The Planet!

By Gary Baise • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Environment

The U.S. Humane Society of the United States recently filed a petition with the EPA to regulate air emissions being emitted from concentrated animal feeding operations. The petition claims that worldwide animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of all GHG emissions contributing to global warming!



Storm Water Runoff Exemption Threatened

By Gary Baise • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Environment, Regulation

On Nov. 16, a U. S. District Court Judge ruling in a case will force Florida to set water pollution standards to control water runoff coming from farms and running into waters of the state or the United States. Agricultural producers must wake up and understand the gravity of this case. This will be the first time EPA will be issuing standards with specific numeric limits to control runoff from not only Florida’s farms but eventually this will move to every state.