November 7, 2024
by Bill Shultz
Agriculture
Litigation
In a case pending before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, seventeen states, a farm owner, and a growers association challenged a final rule recently promulgated by the Department of Labor granting concerted action rights to migrant farmworkers. This challenge is just the latest move in industrial agriculture's 400-year history of farm worker exploitation.
September 19, 2024
by Zak Handler
Agriculture
Climate change
Diet and food production, especially of meat, has a large impact on climate change. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines should be used to help deal with the climate consequences of diet.
March 21, 2024
by Damon Hays
Agriculture
Climate change
Natural Resources
Regulations
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
The current impasse over the nation's premier agriculture legislation is one that reflects the competing interests of modern food production practices and climate change mitigation efforts.
December 22, 2022
by Damon Hays
Agriculture
Sustainability
The industrial style of agricultural production practiced in the United States perfectly illustrates the nation’s relationship with the changing climate. Agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions while also facing the rapid rise…
January 12, 2021
by Shannon Twiss
Agriculture
Climate change
Regulations
Policymakers should take a closer look at the way the effects of climate change are taking their toll on our most essential workers in agriculture, manufacturing, and emergency response.
March 4, 2020
by Joseph Nelson
Agriculture
State and Local
Food Freedom Laws can help us positively reorder our relationships with our food, our neighbors, and the Earth we share.
February 13, 2020
by Kayla Steinberg
Agriculture
Litigation
Renewable Energy
State and Local
In July 2019, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s Public Service Commission has the final say on the siting of solar and wind energy projects, prompting concerns by local governments over how to protect farmland from development.
November 6, 2019
by Alka Paturi
Agriculture
Chemicals
International
Regulations
Chlorpyrifos has been the subject of much regulation in recent years. With the European Union on track to ban large-scale agricultural use of chlorpyrifos, where does the EPA stand on this hazardous chemical?
March 18, 2019
by Catherine Schluter
Agriculture
State and Local
Water
Pork is a big part of the American diet, but pig farming has serious environmental and human health consequences. North Carolina is one of the biggest pork producers in the country, but its state legislature, like many other states, is putting pork profits over sufficient protections.
