Climate Bill Boosting Growers’ Carbon Credits Hits House Hurdles

Legislation that aims to boost climate-friendly farming practices is getting bogged down amid opposition in the House and questions over how the Agriculture Department would carry out its mandates.

The measure (S. 1251), which would reward agricultural practices that sequester carbon, breezed to passage in the Senate in June on a 92-8 vote, with 54 cosponsors split almost evenly between Republicans and Democrats. Supporters—including agriculture and environmental groups—billed it as a way to help farmers’ bottom lines while cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, which contributes 10% of U.S. emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency reports.

But the Growing ...