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The Congress will be working on a new farm bill.
The US agriculture department on Thursday asked farmers, advocates and lawmakers to provide advice for selecting the third-party program administrator of a $2.2 billion program to help farmers who have been discriminated against by the agency in the past. “We want a farm focussed program that will work in ways that others have not,” said…
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The papers under review will not be rejected by eLife.
US President Donald Trump has ordered Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to “take appropriate actions” to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. Trump’s order comes amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in the country, with over 2 lakh cases reported in the past week. The US accounts for…
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The giant donut-shaped machine just proved a clean power source is possible.
US Energy Secretary Sonny Perdue said he would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source,” Perdue said. Earlier, British scientists claimed to have generated 59 megajoules of fusion energy for five seconds in a giant donut-shaped machine called a tokamak.