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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, January 09, 2025
To complement the Better Buildings Challenge, partners who are working on broad, portfolio-wide strategies can engage in another DOE program called Better Buildings Accelerators. The accelerators are collaborative networks designed to advance specific innovative policies and approa
Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Jerry Moran, Greg Herbruck, National Farmers Union, Chairman Kevin Brady, International Trade Commission, EPA, Renewable Volume Obligation, Bob Dinneen, Renewable Fuels Association, Feed the 5000
Organic Trade Association members headed to Washington for the groups annual policy meeting next week are in for some good news. Sales of organic products in the U.S. reached $43.3 billion last year, the highest ever, an OTA survey shows.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would reduce the U.S. trade deficit and create jobs throughout the country, but some of the biggest gains would be for the agriculture sector, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission report released Wednesday evening.
The Senate is moving a fiscal 2017 spending bill that would boost funding for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act by more than the White House requested. The measure, which was approved by the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday, also would provide $1.
Additional protections for pollinators are included in an EPA proposal that would allow use of sulfoxaflor, whose registration was pulled last year after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled the agency had not properly evaluated the insecticide�s effec
A landmark study of genetically engineered crops provides some timely assurance to the public about the crops� safety. But the report released Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine also cast doubt on some of the loftiest claims and predi
President Barack Obama issued an executive order to federal agencies today directing them to take actions to protect government buildings in sensitive areas from wildfires.
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