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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Dozens of groups representing agribusiness and other major business sectors are endorsing a congressional effort to overturn new National Environmental Policy Act regulations.
With a government shutdown looming on Sunday, the House plowed ahead with debating additional cuts to USDA and farm bill programs as part of a fiscal 2024 spending bill that has no chance of becoming law.
Lawmakers are steering $346 million in USDA funding to their home states and districts this year as earmarks returned for the first time since Republicans took control of the House in 2011 and then-President Barack Obama vowed to veto bills that had such designated spending.
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2017 - The White House nominated Bill Wehrum of Delaware to serve as the assistant administrator for Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, a job he previously held for two years.