Agriculture

Study Calls for Rapid "Negative Emissions" as Scientist Warns "Shit's Hitting the Fan"
Trump's USDA Rolls Back School Lunch Guidelines Championed by Michelle Obama
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Perhaps explaining why he thinks nutrition guidelines are excessive, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue dines with elementary school students in Leesburg, Virginia. (Photo: ABC News)
In one of his first orders of business, President Donald Trump's newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue took steps to weaken school lunch standards championed by former First Lady Michelle Obama. In an interim final rule, announced by Perdue while he visited an elementary school in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Leesburg, Virginia on...
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Tribunal Finds Monsanto Endangers Right to Food, Health, Environment
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Biotech giant Monsanto "has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted...
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Pulitzer Prize Pushes Back Against Trump, Big Ag, and Offshore Wealth
Nika Knight, staff writer
The homepage of the Storm Lake Times announcing the paper's Pulitzer Prize
Prestigious Pulitzer Prizes on Monday were awarded to investigations that...
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Migrant workers harvest corn on a farm in Gilroy, Calif., in 2013.
EPA Rejects Own Science to Greenlight Brain-Damaging Pesticide
Amid Trump's Deregulatory Bonanza, UN Report Details 'Catastrophic' Impact of Pesticides
With Big Ag Giveaways In the Works, Sessions Urged to Reject Mega-Mergers
Trump Issues Media Blackout at Multiple Federal Agencies
A bottle of Trump chardonnay.
Trump's Vineyard Looks to Hire Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs
Cows in a field
Methane Emissions Are Soaring, Report Finds, and Agriculture Is to Blame
On Our Watch, Global Giraffe Population 'Pushed Toward Extinction'
Has Last Shoe Dropped in Fight Against Superbugs?
Goodbye Grasslands. Goodbye Birds. Goodbye Carbon Sink.
Concerned Over Growing Power of Big Ag, States Joining DOJ Probes of Mega-Mergers
'Climate Tax' on Meat and Dairy Would Sink Emissions and Diseases: Study
Absent Radical System Change, World Faces Two-Thirds Wildlife Loss by 2020

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