WTO to slow overfishing: Trade ministers from around the world agreed to curb fishing subsidies and, it was hoped, to boost fish stocks — ‘only the second multilateral agreement on setting new global trading rules in the WTO’s 27-year history.” (BBC)
Maloney chairs ag subcommittee: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney succeeded fellow New York Democrat Antonio Delgado, now the lieutenant governor of New York, as chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit. (FERN’s Ag Insider)
Mondelez buys Clif Bar: Foodmaker Mondelez said it would buy organic snack company Clif Bar for $2.9 billion, creating a “global snack bar player with leading brands.” (Mondelez)
GOP tests environmental laws: Republican state attorneys general and conservative legal activists are sending a series of cases through the federal court system with the goal of rewriting environmental law and weakening the government’s power to act against global warming. (New York Times)
‘Act now’ on Western water: With the Interior Department warning that it may slash water availability from the Colorado River by 28 percent or more next year, the government is telling seven Western states to drastically reduce the amount of water they use in the next two months. (Los Angeles Times)