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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Prospects for moving a farm bill anytime soon are anything but improved with the director of the Congressional Budget Office telling lawmakers he can’t add staff to work on the legislation.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s budget would be slashed to its lowest level since 1991 in a spending bill approved by the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee Wednesday.
Farmers need more assistance conserving water, Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said at a hearing Wednesday where he touted new legislation that would help them do it.
A lawmaker who’s close to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says Republicans are trying to work through potentially thorny issues with the farm bill before it gets to the floor.
Summit Carbon Solutions has voluntary agreements in hand from scores of landowners as it works to secure a path for the first carbon capture pipeline in the Midwest, but the company is also preparing for a hearing next month to push for the use of eminent domain in Iowa.
A growing coalition wants the Biden administration to leverage its $8.8 billion in federal food purchasing to promote racial equity, animal welfare, environmental sustainability and local food procurement.
United Nations officials on Monday lamented Russia’s decision to effectively terminate the Black Sea Grain Initiative by pulling out of the deal, but also said they will continue to fight to revive the UN-brokered agreement.
The House is approaching another partisan face-off, this time over funding the government for the next fiscal year, after Republicans narrowly won passage of a defense authorization bill last week.