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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 09, 2024
A former groundskeeper will be the first person to take on Monsanto directly in court over claims that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the company’s Roundup herbicide, caused his cancer.
The effort to craft a new rule defining "waters of the U.S." will take another step forward today when EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers send a new proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
California cannot require companies to place warning labels on glyphosate products, a federal judge affirmed in a ruling issued Tuesday that questions the benefits of Proposition 65, which is meant to inform the state’s residents about cancer-causing chemicals.
The Forest Service plans to use new authority it received in the omnibus spending bill to get more timber out of the nation's forests and make them less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire, the service's acting chief has told congressional lawmakers.
Chris Novak, currently the chief executive officer of the National Corn Growers Association, will take over as CEO of CropLife America on Aug. 20, replacing longtime CEO Jay Vroom.
If the “waters of the United States” rule became law, it would “freeze up” the use of farmland as landowners try to determine “whether every minor drainage ditch, dry arroyo, and nearby puddle is covered by the Clean Water Act,” farm groups said in an amicus brief filed in federal court in North Dakota.
A bill to expedite permitting for broadband projects on federal land easily cleared the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, cheering advocates of rural broadband.
EPA's Science Advisory Board plans to review an agency proposal to make additional data behind regulatory proposals available to the public, citing myriad concerns about the agency effort.
