Bakersfield Californian: Local farmers are adding their support to legislation that would divert revenue from Californias cap-and-trade program to biomass plants that generate power by burning agricultural and urban green waste. Last month the Kern County Farm Bureau co-hosted a meeting in Delano to raise awareness of Assembly Bill 590 and help an industry the group called very important to local growers, in that biomass plants take trimmings and old trees that would otherwise be more expensive for farmers to dispose...