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The House is set to break an impasse over fast-track trade bill as GOP congressional leaders committed to President Obama to separately seek approval of an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance programs.The plan involves splitting a bill that included both the TAA extension and the fast-track Tr

The U.S. will seek World Trade Organization arbitration over Canada?s request for retaliation stemming from a country-of-origin labeling (COOL) dispute, the Canadian government confirmed today in a release.

Industry officials on both sides of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) argument held dueling calls Wednesday afternoon to tell reporters why the EPA?s management of the statute has them crying foul.

The House Agriculture Committee advanced bills that would allow new futures contracts for foreign-produced cotton and accelerate approvals for thinning trees on federal lands.

Addressing the U.S. Energy Association/Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Forum last week, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado said his role ?as a Republican, as a conservative? is to ?get people to understand that we shouldn?t be afraid of energy efficiency.?

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing today on how to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent, in both the long and short term.

An economic impact analysis released Wednesday by the USDA?s BioPreferred Program found that U.S. biobased products, such as biofuels and renewable chemicals, contribute $369 billion and 4 million jobs to the country?s economy.

House appropriators are seeking to ensure the Obama administration doesn?t use environmental factors in writing the federal dietary guidelines for meat consumption. A draft fiscal 2016 appropriations bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration includes a provision that woul

Animal water and feed get tougher antibiotics

Trade Promotion Authority stalled, what next?