February 13, 2025
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brooke Rollins to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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January 23, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry held hearings on the nomination of Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture. Rollins previously held roles as President Trump’s domestic policy chief during his first term and deputy general counsel for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
June 11, 2024
Senate Republicans today released their version of a framework for the 2024 farm bill, which weakens climate investments, cuts bedrock environmental laws to expedite logging projects, and jeopardizes SNAP support for the poor and hungry.
May 1, 2024
Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Stabenow and House Agriculture Committee Republicans introduced their competing frameworks for the latest Farm Bill, the comprehensive legislative package that will set agricultural, food, and nutrition policy for the next five years.
13 de octubre de 2023
Octubre 10, organizaciones ambientales, agroecológicas, comunitarias y municipales convocaron a la prensa a la vista argumentativa de la demanda entablada contra el gobierno de Puerto Rico y varias agencias por violar el Plan de Uso de Terrenos y la Ley de Política Pública Energética en los procesos de aprobación de proyectos industriales de energía renovable en suelos de alto valor agrícola y ecológicamente sensitivos.
July 12, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Biden Administration pledged significant funding for the Measurement Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MMRV) of greenhouse gas emissions for agriculture and forestry. In a statement this morning, the United States Department of Agriculture announced $300 million for MMRV, to be funded through the Inflation Reduction Act climate law.
December 18, 2020
Washington, DC -- On December 11th, President-elect Joe Biden introduced Tom Vilsack as his intended nominee for Secretary of Agriculture.
In response, Sierra Club Acting Our Wild America Director Chris Hill released the following statement:
“It is critical that President-elect Biden’s cabinet be filled with nominees who will advance bold solutions -- rooted in justice and equity -- at the size and scale needed to address the climate crisis.
October 1, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC – As North Carolina communities grapple with the pollution from industrial pig, chicken, and turkey operations that flooded during Hurricane Florence, community groups and an allied national coalition filed a legal complaint in federal court late Friday challenging a Trump administration policy that unlawfully exempts industrial animal feeding operations from having to report toxic pollution under a federal emergency planning and right-t