[USCC] Fw: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
dmhill@aol.com
dmhill at aol.com
Fri Jul 17 15:22:32 CDT 2009
Sharon and all,
Thank you! I will gladly accept your gracious offer. At our board meeting today, the board ratified the USCC Position Statement regarding this pending bill. It will be published in this month's USCC Newsletter. Please be sure to look for it.
Contacting your senator, Senator Barbara Boxer Chair of the Environmental and Public Works Committee and other members of this committee, as well as (list below) may be very helpful in bring some of the shortcoming of this bill to light and possibly send it back for revision. It is important to write to them now. The senate go to recess July 31 for the month of August. If they have information in hand prior to recess, their aids will have time to review and draw up reports. This will get voted upon by mid-September. So while there is time, we need to make sure the Senators have this information for some good reading materials on their break.
David Hill
Chair, LE&A Committee
-----Original Message-----
From: SharonBarnes <slbarnes at barnesnursery.com>
To: 'Compost Discussion List' <compost at mailman.cloudnet.com>
Sent: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 11:09 am
Subject: Re: [USCC] Fw: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
Dear David and all,
I have wanted to comment since Nelson and Andrew both expressed their
concerns with the Climate Bill that emerged from the House. Our firm is
also concerned and concurs with the comments expressed so far.
Thank you for your response. I am ready, willing and able to do whatever
you
need (including travel to Washington) when you need it. I would be glad
to meet with my congressional representatives but I need to know the unified
message and plan.
Sharon
Sharon Barnes
Barnes Nursery, Inc.
3511 Cleveland Road West
Huron, OH 44839
P 419-433-5525
800-421-8722
F 419-433-3555
www.barnesnursery.com
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Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [USCC] Fw: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
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 Affair
s
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 anae
robic 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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