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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, September 09, 2024
New Endangered Species Act rules received a mixed reaction from environmental groups and resource users, who have been watching closely to see how the Biden administration implements the 51-year-old law.
A federal judge has shot down a Trump administration decision to give Florida authority to grant permits for projects affecting waters covered by the Clean Water Act.
The Environmental Protection Agency has affirmed its finding that the “weight of evidence is insufficient” to link exposure from use of paraquat to Parkinson’s Disease in humans.
A new proposal to reduce wastewater discharges from meat and poultry slaughterhouses and processing plants has the Environmental Protection Agency facing criticism from both environmentalists and the meat industry.
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Wednesday to restore automatic protections for species listed as “threatened," as the Biden administration moved to roll back a Trump-era overhaul of the way the Endangered Species Act is implemented.
Kathy Eichlin has been selected as the head of U.S. crop protection corporate communications for Syngenta North America and Former Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has joined Husch Blackwell Strategies, where he will chair a new leadership strategies advisory services group.
The number of unfilled grain car orders shot up 231% during the second quarter of this year, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis of government data.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering how to allow some continued uses of chlorpyrifos in the future, even though the chemical’s use on food crops has been revoked.
Farmers will be banned from applying chlorpyrifos to food crops starting Monday unless farm groups can persuade an appeals court to intervene, and experts say many growers lack reliable alternatives for controlling insect pests.
