Earth Day

By Joan Messina, Public Information Coordinator USDA Rural Development celebrated a magnificent Earth Day in the bright spring sunshine at Vandalia Lake in Fayette County, Illinois, last Thursday. The clouds rolled away just hours before we joined Fayette Water Company (FWC) to mark the advent of...

Story by Student Reporter Jessi Southworth

Molly Lambert, Vermont State Director for USDA Rural Development, was joined by Jenny Nelson from U.S. Senator Bernie Sander’s Office, State Officials, and Lyndon Town Officials for an Earth Day tree planting celebration and to announce the award of a USDA Rural Development Water and Environmental...

Written by E.J. Stapler, Rural Development Public Information Coordinator, Georgia

For more than two years the Yerington Paiute Tribe has been unable to drink the water from its taps due to arsenic and uranium contamination. Furthermore, the tribe and its lessee, Rite of Passage training academy, were under pressure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for being out of...

By Harold Alford, Public Information Coordinator, Kansas Last week as we celebrated the anniversary of Earth Day, we remembered that it is critical that we protect our environment for future generations. In each of the past 40 years, communities and individuals throughout our Nation have taken one...

Written by Amy Mund, Public Information Coordinator USDA Rural Development-Colorado

By Katherine Belcher , USDA Rural Development Public Information Coordinator

Photos and blog courtesy of Kathy Beisner, Public Information Coordinator, Delaware

Planting trees is a very traditional way to celebrate Earth Day. Over the years the trees grow up to do many good things for the environment; filter water runoff before pollutants slip into streams, supply the oxygen we breathe and even reduce energy bills by cooling homes and businesses with their...