Earthjustice Action Condemns Farm Bill’s Senate Committee Passage

Contact: Siham Zniber, szniber@earthjustice.org

Washington, D.C. — Following the Senate Agriculture Committee’s vote to advance the Farm Bill to a full vote in the Senate, Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative at Earthjustice Action, issued the below statement:  

“Instead of taking the time to make a better, people-centered Farm Bill that puts our farmers, our health, and our environment, Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee advanced the same anti-farmer, pro-corporations Farm Bill for which they’d previously failed to secure the votes. We call on the Senate to reject this bill giving corporations a free pass to keep pumping our lands and water full of toxic chemicals, while selling out and clearcutting our public lands.” 

In addition to allowing for the year-round sale of E15, which would have serious impacts on our air, wildlife, and environment, the bill would: 

• Cut $2 billion from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) while steering subsidies to the largest agribusiness operations.  

• Keep harmful policy changes that shift more of the cost of running the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to the states, burdening already-strained state budgets while working families face high food prices and rising costs.  

• Prioritize the logging industry with dramatic exemptions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and tribal consultation that will almost certainly increase wildfire risk. 

Since the Republican reconciliation bill passed in July 2025, 4.7 million people have lost access to SNAP.  

Ahead of the vote, Earthjustice Action signed a letter calling on the committee to protect SNAP, conservation, land access, and Tribal consultation in the Farm Bill. Earthjustice Action also condemned the passage of the House of Representatives’ own version of the Farm Bill earlier this year, and was part of the 233 environmental organizations who urged House Democrats to vote against the bill, saying it would “undermine conservation and forest management, public health, community safety, and states’ rights.”