HR 2508 117th Congress House Agriculture and Food Accounting and auditing Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural practices and innovations Air quality Climate change and greenhouse gases Commodity Credit Corporation Farmland Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises Livestock Public contracts and procurement

Naturally Offsetting Emissions by Managing and Implementing Tillage Strategies Act of 2021

Introduced: April 14, 2021 See on congress.gov

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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Apr 14, 2021

Introduced in House

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Naturally Offsetting Emissions by Managing and Implementing Tillage Strategies Act of 2021 or the NO EMITS Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to carry out activities to improve soil health, including to address climate change.

Specifically, USDA must

establish a program that provides agricultural producers incentives (i.e., payments) for and technical assistance with adopting or maintaining practices or cropping systems to improve soil health,
award grants to states and Indian tribes for implementing soil health programs, and
use a portion of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide agricultural producers with technical assistance for mitigating and adapting to climate change.

The bill also (1) makes practices related to livestock production eligible for certain competitive grants under the On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials program, and (2) increases funding for the program.

What's happening now April 14, 2021

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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Agriculture Committee
House of Representatives

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Cosponsors 2

Bacon, Don

Nebraska · Apr 20, 2021

Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"

Arkansas · Apr 20, 2021

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2508: Naturally Offsetting Emissions by Managing and Implementing Tillage Strategies Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2508/

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"H.R. 2508: Naturally Offsetting Emissions by Managing and Implementing Tillage Strategies Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2508/.

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H.R. 2508, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2508/.

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