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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping 10-year plan to carry out the Green New Deal and reshape U.S. agriculture through regulations and subsidies to reduce its environmental impact and push farmers into organic methods and smaller scales of production.
The Senate is poised to send Circuit Court Judge Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, following Sen. Susan Collins' announcement Friday afternoon that she will vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
Forest biomass is carbon neutral, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said today, announcing a decision that cheered private forest owners but inflamed environmentalists.
A bill that would allow for small-scale exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will advance to full House Energy and Commerce Committee, despite Democrats’ opposition.
A proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) received strong support from the Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW).
Big Ox Energy – Siouxland LLC will work with the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Nebraska to prevent chemical releases after one of its employees was hospitalized in a 2016 incident at the Dakota City, Neb., biogas production and packaging facility.
The Maine Department of Transportation has submitted a plan to reduce nitrous oxide as part of an Environmental Protection Agency judgment against Volkswagen (VW).
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2017 - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt missed the deadline to implement clean air protection against smog pollution.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - Senate lawmakers will gather today to consider the sale of higher blends of ethanol year-round, a move praised and opposed by familiar parties in the renewable fuels argument.