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Fishy Business		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Fishy Business For the second time this year, congressional Republicans have used behind-the-scenes trickery to weaken organic-labeling standards. Powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tacked a measure onto the recently passed $79 million war-spending bill that directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to come up with a plan for certifying and ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, fishing, food, organic food, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Lack of Interest		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Lack of Interest Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled a case against a Texas-based biotechnology company whose genetically modified (GM) feed corn contaminated natural corn and soybeans. The USDA represented the settlement as a sharp crackdown on violators of GM standards -- but in fact, the settlement involved a no-interest $3.5 million government loan, meaning the American people will subsidize the ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, education, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Prodigal Son		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Prodigal Son The U.S. Agriculture Department has levied more than $3 million in fines against biotech company ProdiGene for mixing GM corn containing an animal vaccine with soybeans meant for human consumption. The contaminated soybeans were stopped before they reached the market, and the company, which makes pharmaceutical and industrial enzymes and proteins by growing them in GM corn, will pay $2.7 million for the value of ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

You Can Judge a Food By Its Label		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
You Can Judge a Food By Its Label In a big step for the organic food industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is poised to roll out an official "USDA Organic" seal and launch a long-awaited national standard to replace the existing hodgepodge of state and private certification systems. Food will have to contain 95 percent organic ingredients to be eligible for the label, a move th ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Information Underload		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Information Underload So much for the information age: Some U.S. lawmakers are trying to limit access to data on the federal government's farm subsidy program. Last fall, the nonprofit Environmental Working Group touched off a political firestorm by posting on the Internet a database of farm subsidy recipients from 1996 to 2000. Information on the site was used by sena ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, food and agriculture, politics (all these topics)

Rey of Sunshine		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Rey of Sunshine A controversial Bush administration plan to log trees harmed in fires that raged in the Bitterroot National Forest in 2000 was halted yesterday by a federal judge in Montana. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy also excoriated Mark Rey, natural resources and environment undersecretary for the Agriculture Department, for bypassing a 45-day public appe ...
Topics: business, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Ann of Green Stables?		11 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Ann of Green Stables? "Awful" and "horrible" are just some of the epithets that have been hurled at U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman by farm-state lawmakers. What's drawn their ire is Veneman's effort to overhaul the $20 billion federal farm subsidies program, which she says threatens international trade agreements, supports the wealthiest farmers, and is bad for the envir ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, politics (all these topics)

Hill and Dale		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Hill and Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth upheld a Clinton-era plan on Friday that would increase protection for much of California's Sierra Nevada, although he also called for a review of how the plan would affect fire control in the area and whether it would conflict with a congressionally approved management scheme. The plan, which was the result of a ...
Topics: California, Department of Agriculture, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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