Farming Regulations and Politics

Inside Climate News
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsAs drought continued to grip huge stretches of American farmland last week, decimating some crops and forcing farmers to plow under others or sell off livestock, a small, but critically related bureaucratic step advanced in Washington.  Over the past year the Securities and Exchange Commission, the country’...

Grist
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThe state's agricultural lobby says local efforts to regulate CAFOs are illegal.

Grist
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThis USDA program has been fighting soil erosion for decades. Now it’s pivoting to climate change.

Popular Resistance
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest $1 billion in projects that encourage farmers, ranchers and owners of forested land to employ practices that help mitigate the effects of climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions or catching and storing carbon, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsac...

Yale E360
View In: Farming Regulations and PoliticsInsurance payouts for U.S. crops losses due to drought and flooding more than tripled from 1995 to 2020, according to a new analysis from the Environmental Working Group (EWG).Read more on E360 →