Farm and environmental groups agree the Natural Resources Conservation Service needs to review and revise new Swampbuster regulations. Where they disagree is on the substance of those changes.
The number of Eastern monarch butterflies spending the winter in Mexico has more than doubled, pleasing groups seeking to restore habitat for the iconic insect.
The Bee & Butterfly Habitat fund is just a tad of pollinator enhancement efforts across the country, but it's already helping landowners seed bee and butterfly habitat in 12 states.
President Donald Trump makes his case to the nation this week for his trade and immigration policies, while Senate Republicans look to advance Anthony Wheeler’s nomination to be administrator of the EPA.
Environmental and farm groups are readying comments on a Natural Resources Conservation Service rule that seeks to clarify when producers have wetlands on their farms.
Growers in California and several other states are fighting to retain use of chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum insecticide environmentalists and farmworker advocates have sought to ban for years.
A new report published Wednesday urges a “radical transformation of the global food system," recommending humans cut their red meat and sugar consumption in half and eat a diet much heavier in plant-based foods.
EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler plans to issue a rule allowing year-round use of E15 by the summer driving season, provided the government shutdown ends in a “reasonable” length of time.
The Conservation Stewardship Program has survived and grown despite repeated attacks by critics in Congress and in some administrations, but one of those critics, Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway, believes he has finally succeeded in pushing CSP toward the door.