Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought
"Worst I have ever seen"
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"Worst I have ever seen"
U.S. cotton prices have skyrocketed due to a megadrought scorching Texas farmland, shocking analysts and traders
Cotton prices seem to have stabilized from their Covid and China trade war-induced spike, but are now facing economic jolts and inflation.
The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would give states more power to oppose energy projects and other infrastructure through control of water quality permits, rolling back a Trump-era regulation that made it harder for such projects to be blocked.
The Biden administration will allow states and Tribes to block polluting energy projects, like pipelines and coal terminals.