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Bakersfield Californian: Local farmers are adding their support to legislation that would divert revenue from California’s cap-and-trade program to biomass plants that generate power by burning agricultural and urban green waste. Last month the Kern County Farm Bureau co-hosted a meeting in Delano to raise awareness of Assembly Bill 590 and help an industry the group called “very important” to local growers, in that biomass plants take trimmings and old trees that would otherwise be more expensive for farmers to dispose......
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Farmers back bill to subsidize biomass plants
Posted by Bakersfield Californian: John Cox on April 7th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation