USDA to invest $2.9 million in 7 new forest projects

USDA will invest nearly $32 million this year to mitigate wildfire risk, improve water quality and restore healthy forest ecosystems in 24 states and Puerto Rico. Since 2014, USDA has invested $176 million in 56 Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership Projects, which focus on areas where public forests and grasslands intersect with privately-owned lands.

Fact check: Trump’s claims over airline safety, veterans and pollution

US president Donald Trump and members of his administration have taken unearned credit for airline safety, pollution clean-ups and major advances in care for veterans. The president ignored fatality-free years in aviation during the Obama administration when he declared 2017 the safest year on record and suggested that was because he has kept a sharp eye on airlines.

Live Videos | LIVE: Environmentalist Spalding on EPA, Climate Change, Budgets and More

Longtime environmentalist Curtis Spalding, currently a professor of the practice of environment and society at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society , talked about concerns with the direction of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on GoLocal LIVE. "At a national level, it's a very sad story.

Superfund work touted by Trump EPA was completed years ago

Graphic shows number of sites removed from EPAA a a s National Priorities List of contaminated sites since 2001; 2c x 5 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 139 mm; FILE - In this June 2, 2017, file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Environmental Protection Agency is touting cleanups finalized at seven of the nation's most polluted places as a signature accomplishment in its effort to reduce the number of Superfund sites.

How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws

The concentration of wealth and influence among tech giants has been building for years-90 percent of new online-ad dollars went to either Google or Facebook in 2016; Amazon is by far the largest online retailer, the third-largest streaming media company, and largest cloud-computing provider. Silicon Valley titans coasted to the top of the economy with little government oversight on the backs of incredibly convenient products, a killer backstory, shrewd lobbying, and our personal data.

Hempler Foods Group, LLC Recalls Pepperoni Products due to Possible Extraneous Material Contamination

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2018 Hempler Foods Group, LLC, a Ferndale, Wash. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,068 pounds of pepperoni sticks products that may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

Voter ID Laws Really Do Discriminate, a New Study Shows

Being able to match voters with their records in ID databases using just a few basic details might help dispel some myths about whom laws do and don't hurt. Being able to match voters with their records in ID databases using just a few basic details might help dispel some myths about whom laws do and don't hurt.

Wisconsin to end pesticide spraying program

Wisconsin is reducing its efforts to slow the spread of the leaf-eating gypsy moth by preparing to end a program that helps fight localized outbreaks in already infested parts of the state. The state Department of Natural Resources is ending the aerial pesticide spraying program because of a decline in requests from local communities and because of growing private-sector alternatives to federally subsidized spraying.

Business briefs a ” December 29

Bill Bolander and Clark Pence of Pence, Brooks, Bolander and Shepherd Insurance in Greenfield recently received awards from their parent company, Shepherd Insurance. Pence received "Rookie of The Year" from the Shepherd organization for his outstanding sales accomplishments in his first year with the company and in the insurance business.