The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental protections for threatened fish in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and pump more water to Central Valley farmlands, according to letters obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The letters show Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration strongly criticizing the Trump administration plan. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently notified California...

The EU Supply Chain Law has been significantly watered down by the EU Parliament under pressure from industry. A guest article by Juliane Kippenberg. At the climate summit in Brazil, Germany supported a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels. Germany will hardly want to be accused of bowing to the fossil fuel industry led by...

This article was produced in partnership with Floodlight For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size of Montana – and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ethanol blended into most of the nation’s gasoline. But a growing body of research reveals...