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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
House Republican leaders have been struggling to get the votes to move a partisan fiscal 2024 funding bill for USDA and FDA ahead of the long summer recess, raising fresh doubts about how soon lawmakers can start working on the farm bill this fall.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a range of mitigation measures to protect 27 endangered species the agency says are “particularly vulnerable” to the effects of pesticides.
The big question in Washington this week is whether House Republicans can hold together to pass their plan to slash $4.5 trillion in federal spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
The legal fight over sulfoxaflor, an insecticide used on a wide variety of crops, is expected to enter a new phase as EPA tries to give itself enough time to complete endangered species assessments and environmental groups continue pushing to ban the product.
The two top U.S. ag trade officials met Monday in Mexico City with high-ranking Mexican government officials over U.S. opposition to a planned Mexican ban on genetically modified corn.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying its listing of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act in order to give cattle producers time to enroll in conservation agreements.
The Environmental Protection Agency got a reminder, as if it needed one, of the need for a legally sufficient plan addressing the risks of pesticides to endangered species when a federal appeals court ordered it Tuesday to issue a new assessment on an insecticide used in blueberry and citrus production.
