Media Coverage

The Nation | Behind the Scenes: Personnel as Policy in the Biden Administration

Over 60 groups ended up collaborating in this database, including racial justice groups like Color of Change and Liberation in a Generation; climate leaders like Sunrise and Friends of the Earth; advocacy groups like Indivisible, MoveOn, and People’s Action; think tanks like Demos and the Center for Economic and Policy Research; corporate watchdogs like Public Citizen and Amazon Watch; and agriculture groups ranging from Farm Action Fund to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association.

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E&E News | Could Marcia Fudge change USDA for people of color?

Rep. Marcia Fudge had lost her patience with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue by February 2019. At a hearing nearly two years earlier, in May 2017, the Ohio Democrat had let Perdue go on at length describing his goals for reorganizing the Department of Agriculture. Running it like a corporate CEO would bring better results to rural America, he’d said.

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The Nation | Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag.

Wisconsin dairy farmer Sarah Lloyd believes she has the answer to a question that has convulsed the Democratic Party for the past four years. “People from the coasts are always like, ‘What’s going on with Wisconsin? How could they have possibly voted for Obama and then voted for Trump?’”

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