USDA agency Current actions to mitigate climate change Possible future actions to mitigate climate change fuels sions from energy projects in national forests • Continue to reforest national forests cleared through human or natural processes Conservation programs Forest Service • Fund the protection of private forestland • Prioritize funding for the protection of forestland with high carbon sequestration potential Natural Resources Conservation Service • Fund projects aimed at increasing carbon sequestration on private forestland • Provide additional funding for projects to increase carbon sequestration on forestland • Fund projects to increase carbon sequestration on agricultural lands Agricultural assistance programs Agricultural Research Service • Research strategies to mitigate the climate impacts of agricultural production • Continue researching climate change mitigation strategies National Institute of Food and Agriculture

See infra section 4.

Perkins, supra note 37, at 993. See also American Clean Skies Foundation, Letter to FERC: Comments on Proposed Rule for Demand Response Compensation in Organized Wholesale Energy Markets, Docket No. RM17-10-000, 4, available at http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/file_list.asp?document_id=13817172 (FERC, May 13, 2010) (arguing that fossil fuel generation is "typically mispriced because wholesale prices radically understate the full environmental and health costs associated therewith"); Environmental Defense Fund, Submission to FERC: Docket No. RM10-17-000, 2-3 (FERC, Oct. 13, 2010), available at http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/file_list.asp?document_id=1385678 (stating that "current market prices fail to internalize environmental externalities-including…greenhouse gas ("GHG") pollution").