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Trump’s USDA Sued Over Program Allowing ‘Horrific’ Mass Slaughter of Native Wildlife

By Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams on Oct 9, 2020   Featured, National, National/World  

Trump’s USDA Sued Over Program Allowing ‘Horrific’ Mass Slaughter of Native Wildlife

  “To carry out such a horrific onslaught on native wildlife in the midst of a mass extinction event and a climate crisis, without any real knowledge of the impact, is utterly outrageous.” Days after federal data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]

U.S. Department of Agriculture Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Alaska Roadless Rule

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sep 25, 2020   Featured, Southeast Alaska, State  

U.S. Department of Agriculture Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Alaska Roadless Rule

  WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday announced the upcoming publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement that describes the environmental effects of six alternatives, including whether the Tongass National Forest should be exempted from the 2001 Roadless Rule.   A copy of the final statement will be available on the project […]

Trump Plan to Open National Forests to Oil and Gas Drilling Rebuked as Attack on Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands

By Julia Conley | Common Dreams on Sep 2, 2020   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Trump Plan to Open National Forests to Oil and Gas Drilling Rebuked as Attack on Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands

  “The administration really outdid itself with a proposal that has the Forest Service walking away from managing our national forests while closing the door on public oversight.” Defenders of wildlife and biodiversity on Tuesday decried a proposal released by President Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture that would sharply curtail the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to weigh in […]

May 12th, 1898

By Alaska Native News on May 12, 2020   This Day in Alaskan History  

May 12th, 1898

 

USDA Eager for More Alaska Pollock Fillets

By Fishermen's News Online on May 7, 2019   Fishermen's News Online  

USDA Eager for More Alaska Pollock Fillets

  Wild Alaska Pollock fillets are proving popular in the US Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program and other federal food and nutrition assistance programs. In its latest solicitation for bids issued on April 29, the USDA is asking for a total of 2,095,600 pounds of Alaska Pollock fish sticks for federal food programs […]

United States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments

By USDA on Apr 18, 2019   Featured, National/World, World  

United States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments

  (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China has administered its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn, and rice inconsistently with its WTO commitments.  Contrary to those commitments, China’s TRQ administration is not transparent, […]

Trump Administration Refuses to Ban Wildlife-killing M-44 ‘Cyanide Bombs’

By Collette Adkins | Center for Biological Diversity on Nov 27, 2018   Featured, National, National/World  

Trump Administration Refuses to Ban Wildlife-killing M-44 ‘Cyanide Bombs’

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency has refused to ban M-44s, commonly known as cyanide bombs, which cause agonizing deaths for thousands of animals every year. The agency’s decision comes in response to a 2017 petition authored by the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians and signed by several other wildlife conservation groups. The devices are used to kill […]

Republicans Unveil Proposal to Push One Million Off Food Stamps

By Julia Conley | Common Dreams on Apr 13, 2018   Featured, National, National/World  

Republicans Unveil Proposal to Push One Million Off Food Stamps

Social welfare advocates on Friday denounced a proposal included in a draft of the 2018 Farm Bill which would impose work requirements on most adults who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly called food stamps. The proposal represents the first concrete attempt by Republicans to erode the social safety net since President Donald […]

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Proclaims National Farmers Market Week

By USDA Press on Aug 3, 2017   National, National/World  

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Proclaims National Farmers Market Week

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has proclaimed Aug. 6-13 to be National Farmers Market Week. This is the eighteenth year USDA has supported local producers by encouraging families to meet, and buy from, the farmers and other vendors at their local farmers market. The proclamation Perdue signed notes farmers markets […]

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