Laws & Regulations

"How Rollins’ USDA Is Endangering American Agriculture"

"Brooke Rollins believes she is waging a new American Revolution, leading a crusade against Biblical darkness and guiding U.S. agriculture into a “golden age.” In her first six months as the nation’s top agriculture official, Rollins has reshaped the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s focus — “more farmer, less climate,” she summarized."

Source: Investgate Midwest, 07/30/2025

"Senate Confirms Susan Monarez To Lead CDC"

"The Senate on Tuesday confirmed longtime federal government scientist Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the public health agency that is under intense scrutiny as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upends vaccine policy in United States."

Source: Washington Post, 07/30/2025

Rule To Protect Workers From Heat Stress Moves Forward, Even Under Trump

"Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced plans to revise or repeal 63 workplace regulations that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said “stifle growth and limit opportunity.” OSHA’s heat stress rule wasn’t among them. And though the new administration has the power to withdraw the draft regulation, it hasn’t."

Source: Grist, 07/30/2025

EPA Aims to Kill Bedrock Scientific Finding For Key Climate Rollback

"The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus." 

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Tuesday the Trump administration would revoke the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

Source: NYTimes, 07/30/2025

Fishing Groups Push To Delay Protections For Endangered Right Whale To 2035

"A Maine congressman and several commercial fishing groups are getting behind a push to delay rules designed to protect a vanishing species of whale for 10 years. The North Atlantic right whale numbers only about 370 and has declined over the last 15 years."

Source: AP, 07/29/2025

GOP May Kill Ban On Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge

"Republicans are quietly moving to kill proposed regulations for PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge that is spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers across the country, destroyed their livelihoods and contaminated food and water supplies."

Source: Inside Climate News, 07/29/2025

"How Brazil's 'Devastation Bill' Puts Amazon At Risk Of Deforestation"

"As Brazil prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon city of Belém in November, President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva is under pressure to veto a measure that could have a huge impact on the world's largest tropical rainforest."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 07/29/2025

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