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Environmental and Energy Study Institutesustainable Biomass and Energy Program
Position: Senior Policy Associate
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
1112 16th Street
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Washington, DC 20036Map thisEESI’s strategy is to have agriculture -- substantively and politically – become part of any climate change mitigation strategy. Enormous opportunities exist for developing rural America ’s clean energy resources, including bioenergy (the production of electricity, useable heat, or liquid fuels...
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Name: Jetta WongPosition: Senior Policy Associate
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Comment on USDA's Climate Change Strategic PlanOn August 6, 2008, the Office of the Chief Economist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is seeking comments regarding USDA's Climate Change Strategic Planning Priorities and goals for Research, Education, and Extension. In collaboration with the United States Climate Change Science Program, USDA released a scientific assessment, "The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States." USDA is requesting input on its efforts to create a strategic plan for climate change research, education, and extension. Comments must be received by September 19, 2008.
EPA Denies the RFS Waiver RequestOn August 7, 2008, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announced that EPA would deny a request submitted by the State of Texas to reduce the nationwide Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). Working with the Departments of Energy and Agriculture, EPA considered more than 15,000 public comments and determined that the RFS is not causing “severe harm” to the economy. This means that the total volume of renewable fuels mandated by law to be blended into the fuel supply will remain at 9 billion gallons in 2008 and 11.1 billion gallons in 2009.
Food Prices Climbing from Higher Energy Costs Not Biofuelstestimony before the U.S. Helsinki Commission on May 6, Jetta Wong, Senior Policy Associate at EESI discussed the complexity involved in the rise in world food prices and how that relates to current biofuel production. Wong pointed out that although it is clear that the price of food is influenced by a number of factors, the fundamental cause is largely higher energy costs.
Wong noted that “because biofuels development has created a global market and brought a laser beam of attention to the relationship between energy, land use, and climate change, much of the media has jumped to point fingers at biofuels without doing due diligence on the issue.”
