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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Neighbors of a North Carolina hog farm won their nuisance case against a North Carolina pork producer when a federal jury awarded each of the 10 plaintiffs more than $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt spent his Thursday either deflecting blame or pledging to do better as he answered questions from two panels of House members.
In an effort to bolster the nation’s baseload energy, the Energy Department (DOE) will release $14.5 million for research on innovative geothermal energy technologies.
Growing public concern over animal welfare is driving the need to examine the impact of large-scale production systems on animals' quality of life, a new report from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology says.
The debate over neonicotinoids' impacts on the environment continues to rage, as evidenced by comments submitted to EPA as part of the agency's review of the most widely used insecticides on the planet.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule designed to increase scientific transparency by requiring that data used to support regulatory actions be publicly available.
A study by an Agricultural Research Service team and university scientists found that U.S. consumers waste a pound of food per person a day, or about a third of the daily calories that each American consumes.
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research this week announced four grants totaling $1.5 million for research to improve economic opportunities for farmed fish, shellfish, and marine invertebrate production and increase the supply of domestically produced, nutritious foods in the United States.
Waivers that refiners obtained from EPA eliminated demand for 1.12 billion gallons of ethanol last year, undermining requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard, says Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
Forest biomass is carbon neutral, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said today, announcing a decision that cheered private forest owners but inflamed environmentalists.
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