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July 28, 2025 – On Friday, officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a notice in the Federal Register asking the American public to weigh in ...
A Q&A with local food expert Dara Bloom explores this untapped market for farmers—even though the USDA eliminated funding for ...
Senator Cory Booker introduced the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to help individuals file lawsuits against pesticide companies for harm caused by their products.
The agency will begin a months-long shift to move its workforce away from Washington, D.C., and into five regional hubs, ...
A new bill would limit the reach of laws in California, Massachusetts, and elsewhere that improve living conditions for ...
In a three-hour hearing Wednesday, the House Agriculture Committee brought in representatives of the animal agriculture industry to provide testimony that state-level animal welfare bills, notably ...
July 23, 2025 – Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has introduced a bill that would change federal pesticide laws to codify the individual right to sue companies for harms caused by agricultural ...
Sprinklers water an agricultural field on July 3, 2024, near Coachella, California, as a heat wave pushed temperatures above 120 degrees. This year, the Trump administration cut a program in Coachella ...
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