Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

by Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University In October 2021 I was a guest on a popular podcast to discuss my recently published book, “Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future,” which examines the agribusiness giant’s influence on the global food system. After the show, I got a lot of calls from around the… Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2022

Are Iowa’s proposed carbon dioxide pipelines a legitimate piece in the climate solution puzzle, or just a windfall for agribusiness? Read the full story at FERN.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As states agree on a historic three-year deal to cut water use, some major agribusinesses are eyeing opportunities for new revenue streams while small producers worry about their livelihoods. Read the full story at Agriculture Dive.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

The prospects are not good; we’re losing natural capital, we’re losing water that feeds industries, energy generation and agribusiness,” Bernardino said. Society as a whole is losing this very precious resource, and losing it at a frighteningly fast rate.”.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is seeking qualified candidates for three Pennsylvania positions-- -- Pequea Conservation Coordinator : The Coordinator will cultivate and facilitate watershed conservation opportunities with agricultural producers, landowners, agribusinesses, partners, and contractors within the Pequea Creek Watershed in Lancaster County. (..)

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The agriculture sector needs to be a leader,” said Siobhan Kelly, agribusiness economist, food systems and safety division, Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). “It Read the full story at Baking Business.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mega-corporations like Bayer and Cargill will be receiving funding from both pools, but this is also true for numerous universities, agribusiness, and nonprofit organizations, as the leading organizations and/or major project partners in both pools.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 1722 ). Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 25 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Order and Agreement with American Tinning & Galvanizing Company concerning the cleanup of wheelabrator dust pile at the Vallimont Site in Erie. (

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2019, Westlands filed a “validation” action in Fresno County Superior Court seeking judicial approval of its proposed CVP water delivery contract with the Bureau of Reclamation.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Agribusiness and its proponents say repairs will benefit disadvantaged towns. Gas resources in this area have unusually high concentrations of CO2, and could generate anywhere between 16 million and 199 million tons of CO2 a year if the project is allowed to move forward. In Recent Water News. Those residents disagree.

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Cleannovate

JULY 15, 2022

But before thinking agribusiness, let’s first see this food as releiving their food budget. With over 75% of Africa’s population being considered young, there is more responsibility in store for the youth in the agricultural front. What do I mean?

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JANZEN AG

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I love reading corporate histories, especially when they are about agribusiness. I just finished Factory on the Plains: Lyle Yost and Hesston Corporation , which tells the story of Hesston farm equipment from its humble beginnings through the eventual consolidation with AGCO.

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JANZEN AG

MAY 12, 2022

Farmers, agribusinesses, and policymakers could all benefit from increasing the collective knowledge that USDA has about farms. This means we do not always have direct evidence that certain farm programs are achieving their outcomes or hindering them. But USDA is not the only loser in the current situation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A dedicated position will be added in each watershed to cultivate and implement conservation opportunities with agricultural producers, landowners, agribusinesses, partners, and contractors. Contractual technical assistance will help create conservation plans and design practices.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

But as attention to agriculture grew, so did the presence of agribusiness actors whose lobbying helped ensure that the food and farming initiatives that came out of the global climate summit fell far short of transformative food systems change. Some progress was made, including a deal to integrate agriculture into the work of the UNFCCC.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Agribusiness — the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, the Arizona Wine Growers Association — opposes the measure on the grounds that it removes local control. Land that is currently being developed could also apply for water. They prefer to rally around projects that would corral rain and funnel it into the distressed basins.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Donovan Neese, the district superintendent since 2011, said retail power customers span the breadth of the county’s agribusiness: cold storage facilities for fruits and vegetables, dairies, cotton gins, and feed mills. Roosevelt Irrigation District pumps water to about 38,000 acres in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

As I’ve written about before , it is tough to hear the stories of seniors whose noses bleed after pesticide spray and of systemic children’s asthma in rural disadvantaged communities surrounded by industrial agribusinesses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2023

There are three groups who are most harmed by industrial agribusinesses practices in California: rural residents suffering with the environmental and health effects of conventional farming, small and medium farmers increasingly pushed out and unable to sustain their farms, and farmworkers sowing fields and reaping abuse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Agribusiness was in Dubai in force But first, I have to note what stands in the way of all this potential progress, and that is the agribusiness lobby. But big agribusiness interests—including the chemical fertilizer industry—were also there. I’ll get back to this in a minute.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2023

Second, precision agriculture is being promoted by the agribusiness sector — i.e. major chemical, pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer companies, like Bayer-Monsanto and Syngenta — which seeks to control data about farming practices and develop the dominant digital platforms used by farmers.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

A recent study co-authored by Flach published in World Development shows that deforestation, especially of the Amazon and Cerrado, increases the temperatures and reduces local rainfall, drying out the soil and harming agribusiness. Flach and her colleagues estimated that the destruction of biomes costs the soy industry US$3.55 billion a year.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

Agribusiness—poultry and row crops—fights all measures that add environmental cost to the bottom line. At the same time that the Chesapeake Bay States work to implement the EPA’s TMDL requirements, agribusiness and home builders worry about the EPA setting TMDLs in the Mississippi River watershed.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2022

The 3,500-hectare (around 8,659-acre) fruit and vegetable farm is being spearheaded by Fortune Agribusiness, an agricultural production company based in Victoria.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Really, agribusiness poses some of the most potent opposition to the fight for biodiversity and the humane treatment of all things that slither, crawl, fly, swim, and walk. In the dark, secrets fester into wounds that inhibit the healing our planet so desperately needs and deserves.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

I predict three key areas of growth: Innovative greenwashing lawsuits – these cases could dig deeper into annual reports and archived documents to really look at environmental claims and “net zero” statements from several industries, including clothing companies, the auto industry, agribusiness, and Big Oil.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Agribusiness and mega-corporations including ADM, Cargill, Tyson Foods, Walmart, and PepsiCo are leading and partnering in projects totaling more than $490 million. The largest grants are targeted toward monocrop commodity systems, which emit the most global warming pollution, rather than diversified cropping systems.

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Earth 911

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Earth911 talks about the challenge of making ethical and environmentally responsible investment decisions with Newday. The post Earth911 Podcast: Newday Impact’s Doug Heske on Investing to Lower GHG Emissions appeared first on Earth911.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But powerful farm and agribusiness lobbyists say they, too, would be forced to report on greenhouse gas emissions. Not a single farm in America is listed with the SEC, which wants big companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerabilities to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Two bills in Congress—the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act , introduced last year, and the Justice for Black Farmers Act , reintroduced last month—would take steps to make our food system more fair.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Agribusiness lobby and climate-denying lawmakers are working to reverse climate progress Back to what Congress must do now: Funding from the IRA is already working to build climate resilience and store more carbon on more farm acres, but we can’t just celebrate, because some in Congress are looking to reverse that progress.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2023

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From toxic air pollution to climate-changing emissions, large corporate agribusinesses threaten public health and the environment. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, over time, advocates for sustainable seed systems now urge a transformative shift – away from the domination of production-centered global agribusiness monopolies responsible for eroding the rich bounty of locally adapted and culturally significant crop diversity.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

The Secretary serves as a member of the State Planning Board and a partner to our farmers, agribusinesses, elected officials, and residents, we recognize the dynamic landscape of our Commonwealth as an asset to us all.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2021

Although most of the Pantanal is preserved from agribusiness, more than half of the high plains upstream from the wetland have been taken over by the industry. .” – Lourenço Leite, a fisherman from Cáceres, Brazil. Mongabay reports that agrochemicals from soybean farms are washing downstream into Brazil’s Pantanal wetland.

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