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Report, Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Adaptation

Reports on Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration Potential
Individual Agencies, States and State Governments, Local Governments
Provides a Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon management concepts into actionable tactics that help managers reduce risk from expected climate impacts in order to meet desired management goals.

Colorado’s SB 167

Incentives for EVs and Hydrogen Vehicles
State Legislatures
Colorado authorizes EV manufacturers that have no existing dealer franchise to be able to sell their vehicles directly to customers.

Minnesota Vegetative Buffer Requirements

Reducing Agricultural Emissions through Source Regulation, State and Local Nitrous Oxide Management Plans
State Legislatures
A pioneering law requiring permanent vegetative buffers on farmland abutting lakes and streams. The law was designed to reduce runoff, but will also increase soil carbon sequestration on the new strips.

California Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy

Reducing Agricultural Emissions through Source Regulation, Multi-Sectoral Strategies to Reduce Methane Emissions, Regulatory Approaches to Reducing Fluorinated Gases, State and Local Nitrous Oxide Management Plans
State Agencies, State Legislatures
Calls for development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, including methane. CARB’s strategy calls for significant decreases in emissions from dairy manure management.

Potential Improvements to Clean Water Act NPDES Program

Reducing Agricultural Emissions through Source Regulation, State and Local Nitrous Oxide Management Plans
Individual Agencies
LPDD recommends that EPA strengthen its regulations in ways that would decrease GHG emissions incidentally to the water pollution controls at the heart of its mandate.

Enhanced Tax Deduction for Conservation Easements

Financial Incentives for Agricultural Carbon Sequestration
Congress
In 2015, Congress permanently extended an enhanced tax deduction for landowners donating a conservation easement to a land trust or government agency. The enhanced deduction allows famers and ranchers to deduct up to 100% of their income.

Income Tax Incentives for Land Conservation Database

Financial Incentives for Agricultural Carbon Sequestration
Congress, States and State Governments
The Land Trust Alliance maintains a database of income tax incentives for land conservation. Their webpage discusses application of the federal conservation tax deduction in detail. Their April 2019 update to this list is captured here.

Renewable Biomass Restrictions under the Renewable Fuel Standard

Agricultural Land Conservation
Congress, Individual Agencies
Congress has directed EPA to exclude crops “harvested from land cleared or cultivated” after December 19, 2007 from its definition of “renewable biomass,” however, the intent of the statute has largely been nullified in interpretation.