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Examining the Latest Agricultural Census Data

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

In remarks made on February 13 while releasing the new Census data, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack directed attention to the loss of farmland and farms since the 2017 Census saying: “ What you find is in 2017 there were 2 million farmers, today the survey report shows we have 1.9 million in 2017. farm producers was 58.1

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Private Student Loan Update: Second Circuit Finds “Educational Benefit” Category of Section 523 Does Not Apply to Private Student Loans

Arnold Porter

In 2017, Homaidan reopened his bankruptcy case and commenced a putative class action adversary proceeding against Navient, alleging that Navient “employed a scheme of issuing dischargeable loans to unsophisticated student borrowers and then demanding repayment even after those loans are discharged in bankruptcy. but omits it in another.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation's 2022 State Of The Bay Score Unchanged, States Must Focus On Agriculture, Stormwater Pollution

PA Environment Daily

The 118th Congress is also due to reauthorize the Farm Bill this year.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill.  Congress should build on that investment with more conservation funding for farmers in the Bay region in the 2023 Farm Bill. 

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Biden’s Economic Recovery Path: How Budget Reconciliation Plays a Role in Passing $3.5 Trillion in Relief

Arnold Porter

While presidents have used reconciliation to enact 22 bills since 1980, Democrats have the opportunity this year to use reconciliation twice in the same calendar year[[N: In order for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill, Congress must pass a budget resolution. 108- 27); Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-97).]]

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. Congress rejected President Richard Nixon’s veto and enacted the Clean Water Act. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . Phosphorus also is a constituent in the manure that big livestock operations turn to liquid and spread on fields.

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Natural Disasters: Developing Resiliency and Addressing Climate Refugees

Vermont Law

20, 2017, around 7 a.m. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. Natural disasters in 2017 were of epic proportion. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2017 was the hottest on. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey required around 10,000.

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

ESA

In this issue: Congress. She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. Appropriations: Congress approved a measure to keep the government open through March 11. Executive Branch. degrees of warming.

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