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Phrases Newly Banned At USDA Include ‘Safe Drinking Water’ and ‘Climate Change,’ Leaked Memo Reveals
Over 100 words and phrases are now banned, many of them essential to any discussion of climate.
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Axed Once, USDA Employees Anxiously Await Potentially Being Fired Again
Many employees have been reinstated, but the Trump administration is moving forward with plans to slash federal jobs.
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Major Supermarkets Fail to Tackle Methane in Their Supply Chains
Walmart and Kroger are among the retailers overlooking a major source of food-related climate pollution.
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Trump’s Department of Justice Investigates the Price of Eggs
The agency has opened an investigation into high egg prices and corporate price-gouging.
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Breaking: Congress Votes to Slash Rural Program Funding, Putting Clean Water At Risk
The latest continuing resolution to pass the Senate will greatly impact rural programs.
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EPA Moves To Decimate Clean Water Protections With Support From the Farm Bureau
The agency’s “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history” spells serious concern for climate change, clean air, water and public health.
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Food Security Researchers in 20 Countries Thought They Had U.S. Funding. Then Trump Took Office
All but one of the Obama-Era agricultural innovation labs received notice in late February that climate-resilient and other food security programs were “not in the national interest.”
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Could Checkoff Programs Be Next on DOGE’s Chopping Block?
Critics of checkoffs — the marketing tool of agricultural commodities like pork and beef — are asking the Trump administration to make cuts.
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New Avian Flu Plan Hatched by USDA, but Experts Are Wary
“I would hate to look back in five or 10 years at this moment and think, 'wow, what we could have done right now could have prevented so much.'”
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