The details: The USDA is proposing adjustments to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978, which orders companies to share info on foreign ownership of US farmland. Citing national security risks (sound familiar?), the agency wants the law to include sites like renewable energy facilities and pipeline corridors.
The pushback: The proposed changes could chill energy investment and treat allied capital like adversary-linked entities, according to five Democratic senators.
The irony: This change could create national security risks…by requiring energy operators to share geospatial data in a public database.
Molly Glick
Energy Central Team
Wed, Aug 12
NEWS: The Trump administration wants to rewrite a farmland rule—these revisions could hamper renewables and pipeline projects.
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