A bipartisan, bicameral contingent of lawmakers are calling on congressional appropriators to support the Navigation and Ecosystem Restoration Program in upcoming report language.

The public trust doctrine, an old, rarely used but potentially powerful legal weapon, is being employed to try to force Iowa to curb pollution from farm runoff.

A new USDA study finds that corn-based ethanol is 39 percent lower in greenhouse gas emissions on average than conventional gasoline.

With 95 percent of California’s Central Valley wetlands lost over the last century to urbanization and highly productive agriculture, researchers warn that the area’s once prolific native salmon could disappear within 50 years.

The Senate is expanding a long-stalled disaster assistance bill to aid farmers and ranchers swamped by recent Midwest floods, but it’s still not clear when Congress will pass the legislation due to a dispute between the White House and House Democrats over funding for Puerto Rico.

EPA will make a decision about whether to revoke food tolerances for chlorpyrifos within 90 days of receiving an order from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, a Justice Department lawyer promised a 9th Circuit panel during oral arguments Tuesday.

The farm bill mandates a Soil Health Demonstration Trial, paying farmers to experiment with ways to build soil carbon and then record their results for potentially new markets in the future.