USDA Secretary Vilsack Announces Grants as part of National Climate Justice Campaign Anchorage, AK – Urban areas and forestlands in Anchorage will get a lot healthier under a new grant from the USDA Forest Service. Grant funding from the Inflation Reduction Act through the USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program weaves together a […]
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, and U.S. Representative Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, Friday applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that it has approved the purchase of up to $119.5 million worth of Alaskan Sockeye and Pacific Groundfish, which will be distributed across the country through federal food […]
(ANCHORAGE, AK) – Monday, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED) announced a grant program to distribute $30.6 million to Alaska’s seafood and shellfish processing sector. The State of Alaska was allocated this funding under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety Block Grant Program. With this funding, […]
“Trump’s biggest regulatory attack on SNAP is officially dead and buried.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced the official end of a Trump-era policy that could have stripped federal food benefits from more than a million people during the coronavirus pandemic by imposing more draconian work requirements on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients. A federal court allowed […]