Congress voted to ban most hemp-derived products last month in a last-minute addition to the spending bill that ended the government shutdown. The ban, set to be enforced in November 2026, will change the pricing, availability and composition of some of the most popular hemp derived products on the market, like CBD tinctures and balms...

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...