The federal grants are part of a $1 billion investment in urban forestry projects across the country.

Residents of rural areas of GOP-led states are set to benefit from investments their representatives voted against.

Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would have slashed emergency loans to farms struck by natural disasters.

Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.

The funds come from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed last year.

Experts say planting trees and protecting old-growth forests are necessary parts of the fight against global climate change.

The increase in pay for federal wildland firefighters comes as the United Nations warns of a ‘global wildfire crisis.’

President Joe Biden said, ‘We moved as quickly as the problem became apparent to us.’

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said, ‘The shameful conduct of corporate executives pursuing profit at any cost during a crisis and government officials eager to do their bidding regardless of resulting harm to the public must never be repeated.’

President Joe Biden has described combating inflation as his ‘top’ domestic priority.

‘We can’t afford to deny this reality and the urgency of what is happening to our state,’ said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.

Republicans who say they’re worried about constitutionality continue to block federal voting rights legislation.

The Biden administration says U.S. investments in domestic fertilizer production will also help address climate change.

‘The impacts to our family farms and these rural communities will be off the scale,’ said Klamath Irrigation District president Ty Kliewer.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a group run by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller.

Sens. Joni Ernst and Roger Marshall want to ban nonexistent ‘meatless Mondays’ at federal agency cafeterias.

Biden is proposing a $1 billion increase in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, from which Trump repeatedly tried to slash funds.

A group of Republican lawmakers says legislation that helps farmers of color is unnecessary.

‘If you’re white, you don’t qualify,’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told a town hall audience.

The Trump administration is slashing pay for farmworkers, which could benefit Donald Trump himself.

The Trump administration is fighting a ruling from a federal judge, who said it would be ‘arbitrary and capricious’ to force hundreds of thousands from the program during a global health crisis.

A new USDA rule lets companies, not the government, decide what is a safe speed for processing hogs.

The Department of Agriculture has suppressed over 1,400 studies on climate change as part of the Trump administration’s broad anti-science agenda.

The funds aren’t even enough, in many cases, to help farmers keep their heads above water.

The bailout that was supposed to help farmers is failing them instead.

In a recent court filing, the USDA contends that states can’t sue the federal government.

The USDA has drastically decreased investigation and enforcement of animal welfare laws, leaving puppy mills to run rampant.

The USDA offered scientists at two key divisions $25,000 buyouts, but after they said yes, the amount was suddenly $10,000.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is cracking bad jokes as farmers are suffering.

The USDA inspector general found the agency violated the law when it moved two scientific divisions to Kansas City.