WASHINGTON (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it would restrict the use of federal subsidies for solar energy projects in favor of protecting farmland, but ...

The Agriculture Department cited high delinquency rates and other problems with loan guarantees for manure-to-energy ...

On Aug. 18, United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins held a press conference announcing the U.S. Department of Agriculture would no longer subsidize solar and wind energy projects on ...

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday that the department would be cutting off subsidies for solar power projects on U.S. farmland, asserting that they are making it harder for producers to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will discontinue providing funds for solar and wind projects, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced in a post on X. Through its Rural Energy for America (REAP) grant ...

The Agriculture Department is curtailing its support for solar and wind energy on farmlands. In a Monday post on the social media platform X, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the department ...

The administration has preserved a $9.7 billion Biden-era initiative to bring renewable energy to rural areas.

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