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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
In this opinion piece, Sylvia Wulf, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s interim head of agriculture and environment, argues that removing barriers to agricultural biotechnology would provide relief to farmers and ranchers who are struggling economically.
President Donald Trump kicked off his second stint in the White House by following through on campaign promises targeting federal employees, green energy investments through the Inflation Reduction Act and illegal immigration.
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency promised at his confirmation hearing
Thursday to work with farm-state senators on renewable fuel issues if confirmed as administrator, but also faced skepticism from Democrats who fear he won't be able to address climate change.
Three advanced biofuel projects will receive a total of $6 million to support the federal government’s efforts to boost production of sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF.
Democrats on the House Ag Committee are starting to line up behind the candidates seeking to be the panel’s ranking member. Reps. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Jim Costa, D-Calif., are challenging Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., for the minority’s top spot.
The federal government and states have made progress in their efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, particularly when it comes to reducing sediment loads in the watershed. But nitrogen and phosphorus reduction goals are still below goals set for the end of 2025, a likely topic of discussion for when officials meet later this month to discuss the bay’s future.
Lee Zeldin, who served as a congressman from Long Island for eight years before leaving to run a tight but unsuccessful race for governor of New York in 2022, is likely to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Generation and transmission cooperatives that supply the nation's rural electric cooperatives are moving forward with carbon capture projects, but officials question whether meeting EPA's new standards is achievable. There are wildly varying estimates in the power industry about the cost of using the technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Rural power utilities apprehensively await litigation in a federal appeals court over a new EPA rule that requires the use of expensive carbon capture technology for existing coal-fired generation. CCS is considered the best available technology, and EPA expects that it can capture 90% of plant emissions.