HYDE-SMITH BACKS GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACT

HYDE-SMITH BACKS GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACT
 
Bipartisan Legislation Would Promote Forest, Farm & Ranch Access to Carbon Credit Markets 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced her support for bipartisan legislation intended to increase voluntary participation by private forest owners and agriculture producers in conservation efforts by improving access to carbon credit markets.

Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of the Growing Climate Solutions Act (S...

WICKER, COONS & HYDE-SMITH WORK TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE TO BOLSTER PANDEMIC RECOVERY 

WICKER, COONS & HYDE-SMITH WORK TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE TO BOLSTER PANDEMIC RECOVERY 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday reintroduced the Cultivating Opportunity and Recovery to the Pandemic through Service (CORPS) Act, legislation that would expand national service programs significantly to help the country recover and rebuild from COVID-19.

The CORPS Act (S.1165) would increase the number of AmeriCorps...

MISS. DELEGATION REQUESTS FEDERAL DISASTER DECLARATION TO OVERCOME FEBRUARY STORM DAMAGE

MISS. DELEGATION REQUESTS FEDERAL DISASTER DECLARATION TO OVERCOME FEBRUARY STORM DAMAGE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), with U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), Trent Kelly (R-Miss.), and Michael Guest (R-Miss.) issued a letter Thursday asking President Biden to approve Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves’s request for a major disaster declaration due to the extreme winter weather that hit the state of...

Senators step up to prevent ag trade suppression

Farm Progress

Senators step up to prevent ag trade suppression

EATS Act prohibits states and local governments from regulating production or manufacturing standards to other states.

By Jacqui Fatka

As the courts continue to uphold the state of California from imposing its production standards on...

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop California's Prop 12

Progressive Farmer

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Stop California's Prop 12

By Jerry Hagstrom
 
The National Pork Producers Council has been pushing back against California's law prohibiting the sale of food products from confined animals. Some Republican senators have introduced a bill trying to...