[USCC] Fw: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill

[dmhill@aol.com]

Nelson, Andrew and others
who have written on this issue,



The first thing you should
know is that Senator Boxer has pushed back a vote on this bill until after the
senate is back from recess in September. Also, the USCC is fully aware of the
shortcomings of the Waxman-Markey bill.  We are
proceeding on several fronts: 



·       
We are working on
a position statement.  We expect to have a draft of this available for
comment by next week.



·       
Some Board
members with Washington contacts, either in Congress or with specific agencies,
are trying to educate them on the problems and unintended outcomes of the
current bill.



·       
We will look to
coordinate our efforts with like-minded organizations.



·       
This will be the
primary agenda item of the USCC's Legislative and Environmental Affairs
Committee when we meet this Wednesday. 



If you are interested in
participating with this committee please send me a note.



 



We can’t let misguided
legislation, however well-intended, setback our industry. Watch for more
information soon. The Senate committees will be having their meetings as soon
as they return from break, so we have to get busy NOW!




 


 David Hill
Chair, Legislative & Environmental Affairs Committee



-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Widell <nelsonwidell22002 at yahoo.com>
To: compost at mailman.cl
oudnet.com
Sent: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 11:45 am
Subject: [USCC] Fw: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill










from Nelson Widell
Peninsula Compost Co.LLC
Wilmington, Delaware


--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Nelson Widell <nelsonwidell22002 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Nelson Widell <nelsonwidell22002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
To: compost at mailman.cloudnet.com
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 2:24 PM







As recently passed through the House, the Waxman -Markey Bill (HR2454) 
eliminates carbon offset incentives for projects that capture or avoid landfill 
methane emissions,including composting and anaerobic digestion.
Unfortunately,this bill takes away offset opportunites for composting by forcing 
the EPA to regulate landfill methane emissions through "performance standards". 
Since the bill appears to assume that all landfill emthane emissions will be 
taken care of by performance standard regulations, then there is no need to 
develop offset projects such as composting or anaerobic digestion related to 
this. 
As one can imagine, the major landfill companies love this because it provides 
justification
for sending more organics to landfills to produce more methane gas to help pay 
for the increased gas collection costs contemplated by the proposed new 
EPA capping requirements for those lanfills.
This is bad news for the composting industry.
I haven't heard a peep out of the USCC on this issue.Does the Composting Council 
have a position on this or propse to do anything about it? 
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