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CCOF helps you take action about issues important to organic food production and marketing. Be sure to visit this page often, as the California Legislature and the US Congress grapple with important policy issues. CCOF posts new action alerts as needed.
LBAM!
Are you in an LBAM quarantined or delineated area? CCOF has created an LBAM ORGANIC IPM MANAGEMENT PLAN for our members. For more information on the CDFA LBAM eradication program contact Claudia Reid, CCOF Policy Director
Climate Change Action Plan
AB 32, the greenhouse gas emissions legislation that passed in 2007, requires the
California Air Resources Board (ARB) to accomplish a number of tasks, including adopting regulations to require reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, to monitor and enforce compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions program, to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the levels in 1990, to be achieved by the year 2020, and to create and implement a public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions.
In compliance with AB 32, the ARB has posted its Draft Scoping Plan for your input and comment. CCOF encourages you to read this document and send in your comments. Many of the recommendations are incentive-based, thanks to many industries, including agriculture, weighing in early on in the process of creating the Draft Scoping Plan. CCOF has submitted our comments, in conjunction with other like-minded organizations such as the Green Purchasing Institute, California Food and Justice Coalition, and Organic Farming Research Foundation.
Because these regulations will impact EVERYONE in California, not just organic farmers, CCOF will be working behind the scenes to assure our members that the organic agriculture perspective is heard during the comment period and during the implementation of the new regulations. We will work with California Farm Bureau Federation, Community Alliance with Family Farmers and other organizations to advocate on behalf of organic systems, which by their very nature accomplish many of the goals stated in the draft scoping plan.
Some of these goals include improving air and water quality and sequesting carbon. If you have great ideas about how organic agriculture can help improve our environment, contact Claudia Reid, Policy Director at CCOF.
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