Rebekah Alvey

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the Treasury Department to restrict the new 45Z clean fuels tax credit to domestically sourced feedstocks. That would prevent imports of used cooking oil from qualifying for the tax subsidy. 

USDA has issued one-time payments to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners across the country who experienced discrimination in farm loan programs or did not equitable access to federal resources prior to the start of the Biden administration. In all, $2.2 billion has been disbursed.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed a framework that would prevent some poultry products contaminated with certain salmonella levels from entering the market, and make those items subject to recall.