…It is important to note that significant amount of wastes enter the ocean through river, atmospheric, and pipeline discharge; construction; offshore mining; oil and gas exploration; and shipboard waste disposal….
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…voluntarily set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fluid milk by 25 percent by 2020, and has since undertaken several projects intended to help meet that goal….
Food Safe Technology
…produce and/or improve the performance of current interventions such as gas-phase antimicrobials and cold plasma. Develop protocols for implementing interventions within a multi-step approach that improves decontamination efficacy, retains product…
Two Southern California Firms Honored
…addition to using a plant-based feedstock and having lower greenhouse gas emissions, this process is also safer because it does not use high temperatures or concentrated nitric acid. The product…
State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program Assistance Workshops
…the implementation of efficient irrigation systems to save water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For a list of technical assistance workshops offered by recipients of this funding please visit www.cdfa.ca.gov/oefi/sweep/….
Making Growing Tamarixia a Common Practice
…pepper psyllid is a host for raising the tamarixia as apposed to your typical ACP that USDA uses. We are creating a bio-control, putting netting around our greenhouse and getting…
WAPA Urges Funding for Biomass Plants
…Committees requesting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds be allocated to the biomass facilities to keep their plants running. With so many plants being shut down, piles and piles of prunings are…
The Western View: Cattle Pollution Numbers
…for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions…” The truth is, in the U.S., raising cattle and pigs for food accounts for about 3 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, while…
Agri View: Growing for Future Population
…to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes combined—largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and…
Technology, Innovation and Food Waste
…address food insecurity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions in landfills and promote job creation throughout the economy in recycling and recovery efforts,” said CDFA Secretary Karen Ross. “It is estimated that…
Biomass Incentives Resumed by USDA
…greenhouse gases. For more information, visit Chapter 5 of https://medium.com/usda-results. Since 2009, USDA has worked to strengthen and support American agriculture, an industry that supports one in 11 American jobs,…
Funding for Bioeconomy Research and Development
…at the pump, bolstering national security by relying less on foreign oil, and combatting climate change with investments in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide for cleaner air,”…
Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry Results
…natural resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” said Vilsack. “With today’s announcements, USDA is providing the necessary tools and resources called for under the President’s Climate Action Plan so producers…
Conserve Energy and Save Costs
…through the development and installation of energy efficiency and generation projects. These benefits ripple across the nation as we work toward energy independence and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that…