Articles Tagged with ''Gavin Newsom''

The Interior Department is doling out more than $240 million for repairs to aging water infrastructure in the drought-ridden West, one of the first investments with ramifications for agriculture in the $1.5 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enacted last year.

State agencies will face a hard deadline for approving the Bay-Delta Plan, if lawmakers approve a bill progressing through the Legislature.

A series of climate plans are raising conversations about reducing conventional pesticides to lower emissions and ramping up organic farming to capture carbon.

Newsom’s budget proposal reflects his priorities for pushing California back into a climate leadership role while responding to rising crises on multiple fronts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Christine Birdsong to serve as undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the department’s number two position.

Despite a record budget and drought, the state is adding no new money for water storage. Instead, about $1 billion for nature-based solutions will fund projects like groundwater recharge.

During a visit to California Tuesday, EPA Administrator Michael Regan reiterated the Biden administration’s commitment to a multiagency effort to increase the resiliency of farms, ranches and communities to wildfire and climate change.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Michael Flores to be the deputy secretary at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Farmers Business Network has hired Ken Barbic.

A closer look at what's in, what's not in Gov. Gavin Newsom May budget revision for California agriculture.

The Newsom administration and Democratic lawmakers have shied away from fully funding dairy digester grants as pushback from environmental groups escalates.