WASHINGTON DC (August 1, 2019) — Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service proposed changes to how the agency manages greater sage grouse in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah after hearing concerns from states and land-users. The changes strive to improve the clarity, efficiency, and implementation of the current sage grouse plans.

ANKENY, IOWA (July 31, 2019) — The chair of the Iowa Biodiesel Board and a farmer leader from the Iowa Soybean Association today requested the Environmental Protection Agency reconsider its proposed requirements for biodiesel under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. Testifying at an EPA hearing in Ypsilanti, Michigan, IBB joined the National Biodiesel Board and its members in asking EPA to increase the 2021 Biomass-based Diesel volume by 330 million gallons, to 2.76 billion gallons.

DALLAS, TEXAS (July 31, 2019) — The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that HHS and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are publishing a Safe Importation Action Plan - PDF* that outlines two potential pathways that would lay the foundation for the safe importation of certain drugs originally intended for foreign markets.

On July 25, US Attorney General William Barr ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to update its execution protocol and schedule five executions starting this December. Whether you support the death penalty or not — I don't because I prefer limited government and the power to kill disarmed prisoners in cold blood and with premeditation is by definition unlimited government — it's worthwhile to ask: Why? More to the point, why now? Politics, that's why.