Items Tagged with 'The Nature Conservancy'

Congress is back in session this week with a focus on the nation’s plague of mass shootings and the raging inflation facing consumers.

An early estimate from the Northern California Water Association expects a nearly $1 billion impact to Sacramento Valley farmers from fallowing land this year.

UnitedAg has tapped Jayson Welter to serve as general counsel and Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Nora Vargas to sit on the California Air Resources Board.

Darci Vetter has joined The Nature Conservancy and EPA Administrator Michael Regan has announced the appointment of Robin Morris Collin to be EPA’s senior adviser to the administrator for environmental justice.

Lawmakers praised water conservation in Southern California cities, while farm leaders said urban districts should follow their lead rather than buying up more ag water.

The Agriculture Department continues to insist that working lands will be included in the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s land and waters by 2030, as the administration prepares to flesh out some of the details of its 30x30 initiative.

A new report suggests Illinois producers could be faced with mitigation efforts to lessen the impact of climate change, but the authors suggest the findings are also applicable across the Midwest.

Microplastics are polluting waterways and soils in California and the Legislature is considering actions to curb this trend.

Asm. Robert Rivas has revived a bill aimed at sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in natural and working lands.