US Forest Service sends aid to Michigan communities to help fight extreme heat
The federal grants are part of a $1 billion investment in urban forestry projects across the country.
By Oliver Willis - September 21, 2023The federal grants are part of a $1 billion investment in urban forestry projects across the country.
By Oliver Willis - September 21, 2023Residents of rural areas of GOP-led states are set to benefit from investments their representatives voted against.
By Oliver Willis - August 22, 2023Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would have slashed emergency loans to farms struck by natural disasters.
By Emily Singer - August 16, 2023Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2023The funds come from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed last year.
By Oliver Willis - September 23, 2022Experts say planting trees and protecting old-growth forests are necessary parts of the fight against global climate change.
By Oliver Willis - July 27, 2022The increase in pay for federal wildland firefighters comes as the United Nations warns of a ‘global wildfire crisis.’
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2022President Joe Biden said, ‘We moved as quickly as the problem became apparent to us.’
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2022Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said, ‘The shameful conduct of corporate executives pursuing profit at any cost during a crisis and government officials eager to do their bidding regardless of resulting harm to the public must never be repeated.’
By Associated Press - May 15, 2022President Joe Biden has described combating inflation as his ‘top’ domestic priority.
By Oliver Willis - May 11, 2022‘We can’t afford to deny this reality and the urgency of what is happening to our state,’ said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2022Republicans who say they’re worried about constitutionality continue to block federal voting rights legislation.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2022The Biden administration says U.S. investments in domestic fertilizer production will also help address climate change.
By Oliver Willis - March 14, 2022‘The impacts to our family farms and these rural communities will be off the scale,’ said Klamath Irrigation District president Ty Kliewer.
By Associated Press - May 29, 2021Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a group run by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller.
By Oliver Willis - April 28, 2021Sens. Joni Ernst and Roger Marshall want to ban nonexistent ‘meatless Mondays’ at federal agency cafeterias.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021Biden is proposing a $1 billion increase in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, from which Trump repeatedly tried to slash funds.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021A group of Republican lawmakers says legislation that helps farmers of color is unnecessary.
By Donna Provencher - February 22, 2021‘If you’re white, you don’t qualify,’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told a town hall audience.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2021The Trump administration is slashing pay for farmworkers, which could benefit Donald Trump himself.
By Amy Lieu - October 19, 2020The Trump administration is fighting a ruling from a federal judge, who said it would be ‘arbitrary and capricious’ to force hundreds of thousands from the program during a global health crisis.
By Associated Press - March 19, 2020A new USDA rule lets companies, not the government, decide what is a safe speed for processing hogs.
By Lisa Needham - October 08, 2019The Department of Agriculture has suppressed over 1,400 studies on climate change as part of the Trump administration’s broad anti-science agenda.
By Oliver Willis - September 20, 2019The funds aren’t even enough, in many cases, to help farmers keep their heads above water.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 10, 2019The bailout that was supposed to help farmers is failing them instead.
By Lisa Needham - August 28, 2019In a recent court filing, the USDA contends that states can’t sue the federal government.
By Lisa Needham - August 28, 2019The USDA has drastically decreased investigation and enforcement of animal welfare laws, leaving puppy mills to run rampant.
By Lisa Needham - August 27, 2019The USDA offered scientists at two key divisions $25,000 buyouts, but after they said yes, the amount was suddenly $10,000.
By Lisa Needham - August 22, 2019Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is cracking bad jokes as farmers are suffering.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 12, 2019The USDA inspector general found the agency violated the law when it moved two scientific divisions to Kansas City.
By Lisa Needham - August 07, 2019