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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Groups representing renewable fuel production are encouraging California regulators to consider the role liquid transportation fuels — and biofuels in particular — can play in carbon-reduction efforts in the state.
California’s Republican delegation is ramping up criticism of the Biden administration over rescinding Trump-era biological opinions governing water deliveries.
The Democratic-controlled Senate on Sunday passed an historic package of financial incentives for cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, including a dramatic increase in farm bill conservation programs aimed at spurring farmers to adopt climate-related farming practices.
A revised climate funding package Democrats are pushing through the Senate this weekend scraps a debt relief program for minority farmers that was blocked by the courts and replaces it with new programs earmarked for “distressed” USDA borrowers as well as farmers the department has discriminated against.
The climate funding package that Senate Democrats expect to pass this weekend will include $4 billion in drought-related funding for the Bureau of Reclamation.
Before confirming her reappointment to the board, senators pushed Dorene D'Adamo to account for the accusations as well as for a scathing audit on drinking water.
PPIC is sparking new conversations about innovative solutions that keep farmers farming and avoid devastating environmental and health impacts from SGMA fallowing, but some of the challenges are daunting.
California is the latest state to benefit from federal spending on locally sourced products for food banks, receiving a $43 million investment from USDA—the largest to date.