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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 04, 2024
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology released a new report that looks at the depletion of aquifers and the long-term effect on agriculture productivity.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue heads to Capitol Hill this week to face lawmakers eager to hear about progress on the Trump administration’s trade disputes and implementation of the farm bill.
Imagine the backlash the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would get if it dragged its regulatory heels on approving the process of editing the human genome to cure colon cancer by insisting that edits be approved separately for each race, nationality and other arbitrary group of people.
Groups interested in the EPA/Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to rewrite the definition of “waters of the United States” — and there are many — are struggling to get a handle on its impacts.
The Supreme Court has decided to review a 9th Circuit decision finding that the Clean Water Act applies to wastewater that travels through groundwater to the Pacific Ocean.
A bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA), which includes increased fees to help fund EPA’s pesticide program, has been introduced in the Senate.
The Food and Drug Administration has identified one farm in California as a likely source of E. coli-tainted romaine lettuce that sickened 62 people in 16 states and the District of Columbia last fall, but can't rule out if others were involved.
In just a few short years, congressional biofuel blending targets will disappear, leaving it up to future leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency to decide what's next.
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