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The Department of Agriculture published an interim rule Wednesday, that focused on technical guidelines for climate smart agriculture crops used as biofuel feedstocks.    “These standards could be adopted by clean transportation fuel programs, who incentivize the production of biofuel feedstock crops using climate smart practices," said USDA Head Tom Vilsack.  "If leveraged...

A new collaborative study from Envu and the United States Geological Survey shows the impact of annual grass invasion on soil carbon loss in American rangelands.   “What they found was during this very exhaustive study that when an ecosystem converts to an annual grass monoculture or an annual grass ecosystem, if you will, we lose up to 49% of the carbon, which could equal 75 metric tons per acre