Friday, the ag committee chairman, Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN), told Agriculture Online that he will work to defeat any climate change legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives until his “Renewable Fuel Standard Improvement Act,� becomes law. And he has let the House leadership know how he feels.
“I’ve told them I want this passed. I want it signed by the President before I’ll support anything else,� he said Friday in a telephone interview from St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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Collin Peterson is Threatening the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill in a Fight over Ethanol
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Peterson: Leave ethanol alone, or I’ll nuke Waxman-Markey
By Tom Philpott
Grist Magazine, May 18, 2009
Straight to the Source
House Ag committee chair Collin Peterson (D.-Minn.) has already made
it clear that he’s furious that the EPA has proposed a framework for
assessing the greenhouse gas footprint of ethanol. Now he’s vowing to
use his clout to crush the historic Waxman-Markey climate change bill,
unless Congress passes a bill that would revoke the EPA’s proposed
rules. Here is the Saturday Agriculture Online:
