Ranking Member Stabenow Urges USDA to Make Climate Change Research Public
(WorldNews Environment)

06.25.19 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, raised strong concerns that the reported suppression of significant climate change research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is harmful to agriculture and urged the Department to publicize past and future research. A Politico article published on June 24, 2019 reported a number of instances where USDA leadership downplayed the public release of several studies containing significant findings related to climate change`s effects on agriculture. In a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Stabenow expressed strong concerns that stifling...