The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued a report, intended to be a benchmark for future climate change legislation, which recommends using the RFS to transition to a low-carbon fuel standard to expand biofuel use. Meanwhile, a long-time climate activist disputes there is a climate crisis. Michael Shellenberger has a long list of bona fides as a climate activist. He’s won the Green Book award from the Center for Science Writings, he was named a Hero of the Environment by Time magazine and he is currently an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He writes that he himself has “referred to climate change as an existential threat to human civilization and called it a cri...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.