Emily Bass

Jan 14, 2025 | thebreakthrough.org | Emily Bass

Washington, DC, January 14, 2025 — Today, the Breakthrough Institute, sent a letter to Senate leadership urging Congress to oppose the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on the basis of his food and agriculture priorities.

Jan 9, 2025 | thebreakthrough.org | Emily Bass

The 118th Congress spent the final weeks of 2024 up against yet another farm bill count down. After weeks of “will they-won’t they” speculation as to whether Congress would hammer out a new farm bill authorization, lawmakers opted to pass an extension through the end of 2025. The farm bill extension was tacked on to a year-end government funding deal, but the process was far from smooth.

Nov 12, 2024 | thebreakthrough.org | Emily Bass

Nov 12, 2024 Share Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via Email Agrivoltaic (AV) systems have been touted as a solution to rising fears around solar energy expansion contributing to the loss of U.S. agricultural land. Most broadly, agrivoltaics can be defined as the co-location of solar panels and agriculture on the same land.

Oct 24, 2024 | thebreakthrough.org | Emily Bass

Over the last two decades, solar and wind power generation has soared. Utility-scale solar energy (USSE) production increased nearly 30% in the first half of 2024 compared to the previous year. While many communities, especially in rural areas, agree on wanting cheaper energy, the rapid expansion of renewable power has also ushered in a growing concern over rural land use.

Jul 29, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Emily Bass

In its previous two articles, my series has made the case that the most recent reauthorization process for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was affected both by unfounded accusations by some Republicans that the HIV program—the largest disease-specific foreign aid in U.S. history—paid for abortion, and by ambivalence or antipathy toward PEPFAR's approach, including on the part of agencies that struggle with data collection in other global health programs.