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What’s Driving Deforestation?

Land ownership and economic power are extremely unequal, and so is the responsibility for deforestation. We need to focus our efforts on the drivers that are most important.

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Aldi Removes Major Pesticides, Joining The Nation’s Healthiest Grocers

Aldi said it would drop products with any of eight major pesticides: Deltamethrin, Chlorpyrifos, Clothianidin, Cypermethrin, Imidacloprid, Thiamethoxam, Sulfoxaflo and Fipronil.

The move is being applauded by health-food aficionados for the healthy aspects of eating foods without pesticides and because those pesticides are considered harmful to bees.

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How To Improve Supply Chain Sustainability: The Collective Impact Model

The Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

Sustainability in the agriculture sector is even more urgent than ever, with climate as a driver.

DAVE FELDMAN

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World Resources Institute: Climate Change Causes Massive Food Loss

World Resources Institute

Climate change has an impact on food, and one area needing more attention after the Paris agreement his weekend is reducing food loss and waste, according to the World Resources Institute.

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Coalition Lobbies Congress For Uniform Food Labeling Standard

Coalition for Safe Affordable Food

The fly-in at Capital Hill yesterday featured men and women from across the country who represent the entirety of the nation’s food supply chain – farming groups, co-ops, seed producers and food companies.

The fly-in attendees had a successful day with nearly 140 meetings in the Senate and House, and they came away encouraged that their message was heard loud and clear.

EPA To Eliminate HFCs Used In Reefer Cooling And Grocery Refrigeration; Grants 3-Year Extension For Refrigerated Trucks

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

This action responds to President Obama's Climate Action Plan by reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a class of potent greenhouse gases used in air-conditioning, refrigeration, and other equipment.

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USDA Pledges $21 Million For Water Conservation In Drought-Stricken States

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The investments will focus financial and technical assistance in the most severely drought-stricken areas in eight states to help crop and livestock producers apply conservation practices that increase irrigation efficiency.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

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Hy-Vee Nebraska Stores To Turn Organic Waste To Compost, Biogas And Animal Feed

Nebraska Hy-Vee stores will divert excess fruits and vegetables, bakery products, solid dairy products and floral clippings with the help of the Sanimax system, which will then turn the food waste into compost, biogas and animal feed.

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EPA Fines Four Northwest Companies Over Chemical Emergency Planning And Release Reporting

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Two of the firms violated the hazardous chemical release reporting requirements of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), while the other two violated the hazardous chemical inventory reporting requirements.

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Wegmans Western New York Turns Food Scraps Into Fuel

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.

Food scraps are emptied into an anaerobic digester where it is heated to 104 degrees and mixed with other organic waste full of bacteria like cow manure and rotten animal feed.

Cargill Joins Effort To Support Sustainable Palm Oil

Cargill is becoming a member of The Forest Trust (TFT), the international non-governmental organization that partners with companies to build responsible supply chains.

John Hartmann, CEO of Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings, signed a declaration along with others from the plantation industry. The signing took place at the residence of Alex Noerdin, Governor of South Sumatra, in Griya Agung, Palembang.

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U.S. Settles With Costco To Cut Greenhouse Gas Refrigerant Emissions

Costco will pay $335,000 in penalties for federal Clean Air Act violations and improve refrigerant management at 274 stores at an estimated cost of $2 million over the next three years.

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