The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced the Farm Bill on Wednesday on a party-line vote, despite Republican in-fighting over a failed effort to bring forward a “Save Our Bacon Act” amendment that would have weakened state animal welfare laws.
New Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance released last week confirms that gas extracted from livestock manure qualifies for a federal clean fuel tax credit, paving the way for increased investment in biogas projects.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) worked directly with pesticide maker Bayer in approving the controversial herbicide dicamba earlier this year, presenting the company with different options for how to reduce drift and runoff and then aligning on those options in the final decision, according to internal agency records.
Amid a busy season of summer food recalls and illnesses, sustainable farming advocates are warning that salmonella bacteria found in poultry is increasing strains most likely to cause illness, hospitalization and death, and that such bacteria are also increasingly resistant to antibiotic medicine.
Brian Bienkowski, managing editor of The New Lede, joined The Happy Disruptors Podcast to talk about the state of environmental journalism and the challenges and opportunities ahead.
TNL managing editor Brian Bienkowski spoke with Susan Kaplan, author of “A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health,” about how states are leading the way on environmental health.
North Carolina’s poultry industry continues to add more birds to already highly concentrated barns, generating millions of tons of manure that is largely unregulated by the state, according to a new report.
Pesticide manufacturers have voluntarily cancelled registrations for products containing paraquat in California — kickstarting a statewide phase-out of the controversial herbicide linked to Parkinson’s disease, according to a California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announcement on Monday.
Republicans on Thursday voted down a proposed amendment to the Farm Bill that would have protected consumer rights to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged harm after the US Supreme Court recently narrowed those rights.
The EPA has backed away from a long-planned review of whether nitrates in drinking water pose greater cancer risks, even as research linking nitrate pollution to health concerns continues to grow.