Trump’s climate policy shift could save American farmers from disaster

Trump’s climate policy shift could save American farmers from disaster

While news about President Trump’s tariffs and crackdowns on the questionable financial management of federal agencies has dominated media reports in recent weeks, a quiet transformation has been under way in agricultural policy. An order to remove climate change references from U.S. Department of Agriculture websites signals a departure from the red tape of climate regulations on domestic farming practices and strings attached to U.S. support …

In the United States, acid rain has long symbolized the excesses of uncontrolled industrialization. Identified in the 1960s as one of the most visible effects of air pollution, it triggered a strong political response in the following decades. Thanks to strict regulations and technological advances, their decline had been hailed as a major environmental success. Today, this fragile balance is threatened. The Trump administration, in a logic of a…

For the first time in a decade, American intelligence has failed to include climate issues on the list of threats to American security. “Have we solved the problem by chance?” , a senator asked the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard