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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
A bill to expedite permitting for broadband projects on federal land easily cleared the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, cheering advocates of rural broadband.
When Scott Pruitt appeared last June before House appropriators to discuss the budget proposal for his agency, he made a bold pronouncement: “We will have a final rule that will provide a definition for ‘waters of the United States’ by the fourth quarter of this year, no later than the first quarter of next year, because that’s the job of the agency.”
Federal wildlife agencies would consult with the Environmental Protection Agency on the effect of pesticides on endangered species in a much different way, if the farm bill introduced by House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, becomes law.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 - Senate Republicans passed a budget resolution that environmental groups say would likely lead to drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - The Trump administrations effort to write new "waters of the U.S." regulations takes a big step forward Thursday with publication of a proposed rule to withdraw the Obama administration's 2015 rule.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - A court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to go forward with regulations on methane pollution from oil and gas production.
