Center applauds bipartisan leadership for carbon market legislation

CENTER FOR

RURAL AFFAIRS

On June 26, U.S. Reps. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, and Abigail Spanberger, Democrat from Virginia, members of the House Agriculture Committee, introduced a companion bill to the Growing Climate Solutions Act, H.R. 7393. The Senate bill, S. 3894, was introduced by Sens. Mike Braun, Republican from Indiana, and Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in early June.

The bill would standardize the agricultural carbon market and was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

“These bills come at a critical time for both the agriculture industry and the environme...