Items Tagged with 'FCC'

We now have a clearer idea of the budget challenge faced by the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill. And it’s a steep one.

The Federal Communications Commission faces a murky path forward in its efforts to bolster phone and internet access in rural America after a federal appeals court deemed the funding source for a number of its connectivity programs unconstitutional.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is working its way through state-level proposals that seek grants from a $42.45 billion program aimed at building out broadband networks in underserved areas.

The Federal Communications Commission is upping its benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second, the first major change the standard has seen since 2015.

USDA is releasing a final rule today under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect meat and poultry producers from discrimination and retaliation by packers, swine dealers and live poultry dealers.

Groups and lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle are scrambling to save a popular broadband affordability program before it runs out of funding.

California farmer A.G. Kawamura has been elected as a co-chair of the United Nations Environment Program’s Farmers Major Group and the Washington State Wine Commission has hired Kristina Kelley as its new executive director.

House Republican leaders have been struggling to shore up support for their debt-ceiling plan.

State broadband offices and researchers say new maps from the Federal Communications Commission that will be used to allocate billions of dollars in funding have failed to catch large swaths of the population without adequate internet speeds.