Items Tagged with 'Rod Snyder'

Hermosa Beach city council member Ray Jackson was appointed to the South Coast seat on the California Coastal Commission. Duane Simpson, vice president and head of North America public affairs, science and sustainability in Bayer's Crop Science Division, is succeeding Chuck Conner as president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.

 Kapi Kapi Growers hired Marissa Geoffroy as director of supply chain. Jennifer Clever is now senior director of the Asia and Pacific Division in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Office of Trade Policy and Geographical Affairs.

The agriculture sustainability conversation in the U.S and globally has moved from “niche to norm” and is likely to keep growing, despite changes coming in a new Trump administration, according to former EPA ag adviser Rod Snyder, who delivered the keynote address at the Sustainable Agriculture Summit in Minneapolis today.

Leading advocates for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris clashed over trade, immigration and tax policy during an informal debate Monday.

In an exclusive interview with Agri-Pulse, EPA Director of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Rod Snyder announced Monday that he is stepping down from the position he described as the “honor of my career."

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is forming a new Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs at the agency, which he says will “expand engagement opportunities beyond any that we've done so far.”

The Biden administration plans to incorporate a recent Supreme Court decision into its existing Waters of the U.S. rulemaking rather than withdraw the rule in its entirety.

An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.

A new rule defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act maintains longstanding exemptions for farming activities but also trims back an exclusion for prior converted cropland that had been in the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule.