Broad House group urges Biden to formally request EU delay of deforestation regulation

More than 70 House members are pushing President Biden to formally ask the European Union to delay the implementation of a deforestation regulation they say will disrupt trans-Atlantic trade. The EU, however, is standing firm, contending the regulation is needed to ensure a swath of agricultural products sold in Europe have not been grown or benefitted from recently deforested land. In a Sept. 20 letter to the president released this week , the bipartisan group of 73 House members warn...