Congress Passed a Bipartisan Conservation Law. Then the Trump Administration Got in its Way
Republicans and Democrats together approved the Great American Outdoors Act, but the administration has ignored planned projects and imposed rules restricting spending.
December 16, 2020
The California Coastal National Monument started with 1,711 acres of donated land, then expanded with the help of funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Now it offers unique coastal habitat for marine-dependent wildlife and vegetation along the California coastline. Credit: David Ledig/Bureau of Land Management
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The partisanship poisoning Washington made it hard to imagine the sharply divided Congress coming together over anything in this year, let alone environmental legislation. And fallout from the pandemic made it seem even more unlikely that Democrats and Republicans could agree on something like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on parks and conservation
More Consumers Purchasing Beef During Pandemic
Wednesday Dec 16th, 2020 The number of consumers who say they intend to eat beef at least weekly increased from 67 percent to 72 percent compared to 2019, and consumer positive perceptions of beef reached 70 percent for the first time, according to a new report released by the National Cattlemen s Beef Association. The impact of the pandemic has been transformative in every corner of our economy, said Buck Wehrbein, 2020 NCBA Federation Division Chair. The good news is that consumers are choosing beef more often as they adapt to cooking more at home.
The report outlines what consumer behaviors have changed, what behaviors may be permanent and how the beef industry has and continues to respond. With support from the 44 state beef councils and the Beef Checkoff program, current market and consumer research provides insight into the past year and helps inform programming and response in order to keep beef as the top prote
IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine.
More than four in five adults believe food workers manufacturing, retail and farm workers, among others should be made a priority when it comes to being among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to an International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) poll conducted by Morning Consult from December 4-7 among a national sample of 2,200 adults. The same poll found an estimated 71% of adults support companies and employers partnering with public health agencies at local and state levels to aid in the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine to employees.
OMAHA (DTN) The U.S. Department of Justice and the North American Meat Institute asked a federal appeals court for a full hearing on a requested injunction to halt implementation of California’s Proposition 12, alleging the law would disrupt programs at USDA.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco recently rejected NAMI’s request for an injunction against the law that requires hog producers to abide by certain regulations in order to sell pork in California. Voters in the state passed Proposition 12 in 2018.
Ag groups and 20 states are challenging the law, arguing it violates the Commerce Clause.
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