Climate provisions derail passage.
Max Graham 23, reporter, citing Cathy Day, climate policy coordinator at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and Cristel Zoebisch, deputy director of policy at Carbon180, 3/30/2023, “The next farm bill could be a historic climate law – if Congress can agree on it,” https://grist.org/agriculture/farm-bill-historic-climate-law-split-congress/
And while that act showed bipartisan interest in voluntary farm programs that could curb emissions, a Republican-led House and a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate could stand in the way of more stringent regulations, like Senator Cory Booker’s proposal to ban CAFOs. Representative Glenn Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania who chairs the House Agriculture Committee, said last year he wants to “make sure the farm bill doesn’t become the next climate bill.” And Senator John Boozman, a senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, raised concerns at a committee hearing earlier this month about the climate-specific agriculture funding earmarked in the IRA, which Republicans unanimously opposed. But Republican leaders, including Thompson and Boozman, also have intimated they could be open to climate-beneficial programs with limitations.