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The environmental role of agriculture in an era of carbon caps.

This article evaluates programs that build on the claim that greenhouse-gas reductions from agriculture can rival the climate-change benefits of switching to low-carbon energy supplies. The Article examines strengths and weaknesses in existing biofuels regulation, including especially the influence of special-interest politics on underreporting the international climate-related effects caused by planting more acreage to corn to produce corn-based ethanol. Looking to the future, the Article discusses the possibility that agriculture and forestry can contribute to a broader "offset" program within a cap-and-trade regime, but notes how special-interest political forces have already begun to threaten this possibility by distorting, beyond what good science supports, provisions on agricultural offsets in the June 2009 Waxman-Markey climate-change bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.