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Daybreak: CalEPA boosts EJ advocacy

10/21/20 10:49 AM By Brad Hooker

Sonoma wine hit by 2020 * Optimism for more ag aid * DEA challenged on hemp regs * Indoor farming gets funding boost

Report: Environmental justice plays a leading role at CalEPA

10/21/20 10:29 AM By Brad Hooker

A new report details how CalEPA hired environmental justice liaisons to elevate the representation of community advocacy groups in the decision-making process for regulations.

The state never saw these SGMA impacts coming

03/04/20 6:18 AM By Brad Hooker

A study released this week presents disturbing findings about impacts from implementing SGMA. Yet the state has never performed an economic impact analysis.

Daybreak: Ag groups plead with DPR over 1,3-D regulations

10/17/19 11:58 PM By Brad Hooker

Mexico tries to persuade Dems on USMCA * Kudlow qualifies Chinese promises

What DPR’s new regulations on 1,3-D could mean to farmers

10/16/19 12:09 AM By Brad Hooker

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has released new proposals for further mitigating the soil fumigant 1,3-D.

Daybreak: Dow agrees on early end to chlorpyrifos

10/10/19 12:09 AM By Brad Hooker

Trump orders aim at regulatory relief * Warren pitches electric co-op debt aid

Big changes or a band-aid for the Valley’s air quality challenges?

08/28/19 9:04 AM By Brad Hooker

A draft environmental justice plan proposes big changes for the small San Joaquin Valley city of Shafter.

Productive ag land is degrading into “salt sacrifice areas”

07/10/19 10:26 AM By Brad Hooker

The impacts of salt and nitrate pollution are costing the state at least $3 billion per year and taking ag land out of production, with salts impacting the valley for decades to come.

Open Mic: Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association

This week’s Open Mic guest is Duane Highley, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. This western cooperative is embracing the growing need for electric power among its one million customers and 200,000 square miles of challenging terrain with an “all of the above” approach to power generation. Highley says the cooperative is utilizing advanced battery technology to add wind and solar generation to the base load capacity of the system. At the state and federal level, Highley says rural cooperatives need faster permitting, less regulatory red tape, and better access to funds to assist in generating and delivering power to rural America.

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12.20.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Dec. 20, 2024: Todd Van Hoose on Farm Credit System, farm economy

The Farm Credit System has experienced many changes in recent decades to better support rural America. Todd Van Hoose, retiring president and CEO of the Farm Credit Council, discussed the viability of lenders in 2025 and looked back at a historic farm bill advocacy push. Christy Seyfert will succeed Van Hoose in January.

Then, The Russell Group’s Jessica Schulken and John Weber from Monument Advocacy discuss the potential impacts of DOGE and what influence RFK Jr. may have on the food and agriculture industries.

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