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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency did not have clear direction from Congress to require power plants to shift from coal to cleaner energy sources, the Supreme Court said in a decision Thursday that could hamstring the agency’s efforts to adopt regulations addressing climate change.
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA is walking a fine line as it navigates competing pressures to produce more food, keep growers profitable and address climate change.
In this opinion piece, Erin Fitzgerald of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action confronts the idea that farmers are killing the planet and not feeding Americans.
In this opinion piece, former U.S. ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program Kip Tom discusses how agriculture is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
An infectious disease that impacts major agricultural regions in the southwest is predicted to be a risk in a much greater section of the United States as the climate continues to change.
Senators pressed EPA Administrator Michael Regan to expand use of E15 in the nation’s fuel supply to combat rising energy prices, at a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan has asked the agency's ag advisory committee to evaluate EPA's policies and programs "at the nexus of agriculture and climate change.”
Publicly traded companies would have to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and supply chains and also report progress being made toward achieving reductions, under a proposal released Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Biden administration is launching the application process for a $1 billion program that will test ways farms of all sizes can profit from the low-carbon commodities they produce through practices that cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Anaerobic digesters that take manure and turn it into biomethane for the transportation sector and other industrial uses are a key part of the dairy industry’s strategy to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
