Farm Bill Compromise Reached With SNAP Changes Out, Industrial Hemp In
Lawmakers unveiled the much-anticipated farm bill compromise Monday night, ending the months-long impasse over whether a critical piece of legislation that provides subsidies to farmers and helps needy Americans buy groceries could pass before the lame-duck session concludes at the end of the year. The agreement was reached after a proposal — backed by House Republicans and President Trump — to add stricter work requirements for those who receive food stamps was taken off the table. The...
JPR Live Session: The Milk Carton Kids
All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do marks the first time that The Milk Carton Kids (acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale) have brought a band into the studio with them. " We wanted to do something new, " Pattengale says. " We had been going around the country yet another time to do the duo show, going to the places we'd been before. There arose some sort of need for change. " " Musically we knew we were going to make the record with a bigger sonic palette, " says Ryan. " It was liberating to know we wouldn’t have to be able to carry every song with just our two guitars. "
Wild Horse Roundup Ends Up In Court
The U.S. Forest Service rounded up hundreds of wild horses in the Modoc National Forest back in October. Too many horses and too few resources for them, says the agency. It plans to sell the horses, with older (10 and up) animals going for as little as a dollar apiece. It's the lack of apparent restrictions that worries groups like American Wild Horse Campaign . The group and others believe the horses could be slaughtered. So they recently went to court to stop the sale.
How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe
At a major climate meeting in Poland, nearly 200 countries are trying to reach a deal on dramatically reducing carbon emissions. But a recent U.N. report found that may not be enough to avoid dangerous impacts from the warming climate. In fact, the world is falling so far short of what's needed, it said, that it might be necessary to pull massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air. The problem is that there's no feasible — let alone economical — way to do that yet. But there are a...
Research Gaps Leave Doctors Guessing About Treatments For Pregnant Women
Jenna Neikirk was nearing the end of her first pregnancy when her blood pressure shot up to dangerous levels. "I started feeling splotchy and hot, just kind of uncomfortable, so I took my blood pressure at work and it was 160 over 120," she says. Neikirk's a physical therapist in Atlanta and knew that level was alarmingly high. She left work and walked over to her obstetrician's office, which was in the same medical complex. "They took my blood pressure again and they decided to admit me to...
