[Terrapreta] Small biochar step forward politically

[Greg and April]

I'm reserving judgment until I find out just what parts Bush doesn't care for, there may very well be some genuine issues he is concerned about.

Greg H.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Larson 
  To: 'Terra Preta' 
  Cc: Debbie Reed 
  Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 20:05
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Small biochar step forward politically


  SNIP

      For non-US list members, this may not seem like much and you will find it hard to believe that we only hear about this ag topic every five years.  But President Bush has threatened to veto this.  I don't know if he will, but the vote was 81-15 and only 67 votes are needed for a veto-override.  It is fairly rare to get this many votes on a big bill like this.  Although no specific biochar funds were established in this bill, I think there has to now be a little available for biochar fairly soon.  Our US House of Representatives passed the same Conference Report the previous day.

      So all of you with a bent towards Federal dollars are now free to bug your local USDA offices.  Good luck.    

      Thanks to Debbie for helping keep this much in.  I don't think we would have seen this result a year ago - so we are making progress.

      Ron



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