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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
With the election results now firmly in hand, ag lobbyists are turning their attention to drafting a playbook for their dealings with a changing D.C. landscape.
The 2016 presidential election presented a clear choice on climate and energy. One candidate, Hillary Clinton, pledged to expand the Obama administrations policies designed to combat climate change and to accelerate the nations shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy
The head of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to rethink its conclusion that the Dakota Access Pipeline does not pose a risk to the waters of Lake Oahe in North Dakota and to tribal members, who draw their drinking water from the lake.
Engineers from the University of Utah launched a $1.6 million project to research cost-effective, carbon-friendly methods of turning coal-derived pitch into carbon-fiber composite material and analyze its market potential.
Donald Trump, Doug Keesling, Waters of the United States, WOTUS, Corn Refiners Association, John Bode, Agriculture Secretary, Mike Pence, Don Villwock, Senator Pat Roberts, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Mike Conaway
The U.S. corn crop will total a bin-busting 15.226 billion bushels, the biggest ever, and larger than the 15.057 billion bushels predicted in October, USDA said today.
Although a couple of U.S. Senate races are still up in the air, if you were an incumbent legislator on an agriculturally important committee heading into Election Day, chances are you wont be job hunting any time soon.
In addition to races to decide elected officials, a number of state ballot initiatives were decided on Tuesday, and those on the side of agriculture might not like some of the results.
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