TFI holds climate change briefing before Senate

Washington-TFI held a climate change briefing on July 21 for staff members of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, as well as agriculture staff from numerous congressional offices. During the meeting, TFI Vice President of Economic Services Dr. Harry Vroomen emphasized TFI’s disappointment with the U.S. EPA’s economic analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, faulting its “unrealistic energy production, consumption and price assumptions.” Vroomen argued that without a more reasonable estimation of the economic impact of the Waxman-Markey bill, it will be virtually impossible for any entity to determine what impact this legislation will have on U.S. farmers.