National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Agriculture Appropriations We engaged throughout the annual appropriations funding process for critical existing food, agriculture, and nutrition programs.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 29, 2024
It would be comprehensive in its scope, including the climate, environmental, and radiological effects of nuclear war and how these would impact public health, global social and economic systems, agriculture, and ecosystems over periods of days, weeks, and decades. Why would a UN-commissioned study be important?
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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
by Nell Green Nylen and Molly Bruce Water scarcity is a growing problem for agriculture and ecosystems across the U.S. What happens to water after someone diverts (withdraws) it from a natural surface water or groundwater source, such as a stream or aquifer, to irrigate an agricultural field? ” Here are four key takeaways: 1.
Circle of Blue
JULY 24, 2025
The MDM also tracks how sediment, vital to agricultural productivity and ecosystem health, is being trapped behind dams. And while it documents impact, translating findings into political action remains a challenge. Importantly, the MDM has become an early warning system for communities along the river.
Circle of Blue
JULY 25, 2025
It now extends through Texas and up through the southern High Plains, where the Ogallala aquifer is depended on for agriculture, and it spreads south, stretching throughout Mexico and into Central America. Water is being used as a strategic and political tool. For the most part, such withdrawals have remained invisible.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The political dynamics of decarbonization that Ive sketched out are very specific to time, space, and economic sector. The policy approaches that may work to advance decarbonization in the electricity sector will not be identical to the ones that may work to advance decarbonization in the transportation sector, or the agricultural sector.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 13, 2025
For many reasons, Californias agricultural regions are in a state of flux. A fundamental land use transition is underway, motivated in part by the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act more than a decade ago and market forces, such as changing crop prices and tariffs, which are currently hitting the agricultural sector hard.
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