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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack may have less than a year left in office, but that isn`t stopping him from delivering forward-looking remarks to ag stakeholders

A spending bill that included a rider to stop the Obama administration from implementing its Pwaters of the U.S.P failed in the House after conservatives bolted over an amendment was adopted to protect LGBT rights.

Mexico is embracing ethanol and U.S. officials want to make sure they can help, potentially laying the groundwork for a renewable fuels program and ethanol exports headed for south of the border.

Eighty years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act (REA) which charged USDA to provide electric power to rural America. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack used the anniversary to announce even more investments in the program.

Since the Energy Department (DOE) launched the SunShot Initiative in 2011 with a goal of making solar electricity cost-competitive with traditional sources of electricity by 2020, solar deployment has grown more than 10-fold in the U.S., DOE says. There are now

A public database that allows users to quickly review the status of 38 clean energy policies across all 50 states was recently launched by the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University and The Nature Conservancy. The State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) for Clea

Significant coal retirements are expected to continue regardless of whether the Obama administrationPs Clean Power Plan (CPP) is finally implemented. However, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions trends from electricity generation through 2040 depend significantly on whether

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Large food companies have said they are taking climate change and sustainability more seriously, but now firms like Mars and Unilever want Congress to back their efforts to become greener.

In a party-line vote, the full House voted Wednesday to conference with the Senate to reconcile differences between the separate House and Senate energy bills.