Articles by Philip Brasher

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee have been closing in on a landmark deal to set national standards for labeling biotech foods. The negotiations have been described as very delicate and the principal negotiators, Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow of Mich

Having failed time after time to kill the Obama administration s new air and water rules, congressional Republicans are trying to hit the regulators in the pocketbook. Both the House and the Senate are advancing fiscal 2017 spending bills for the Environmental Protection Agency that w

Lawmakers are telling the Pentagon to forget about the idea of Meatless Mondays. An amendment that the House adopted to the Defense Department s fiscal 2016 spending bill would prohibit the Pentagon from removing meat from its food service program manual.

Environmnetal Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, Chairman Lamar Smith, WHO's International agency for Research on Cancer. Energy Information Association. Lamar Smith, Pat Roberts DebbieStabenow, Catfish Inpection, Corker, Heidi Hantkamp

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Debbie Stabenow, Pat Roberts, Tom Vilsack, GMO Food Labeling, Vermont, Pamela Bailey, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Philadelphia, American Beverage Association, Rosa DeLauro, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, White House

The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a fiscal 2017 spending bill that would block the Obama administration`s `waters of the United States` rule, curb work on greenhouse gas regulations and bar some endangered species protections.

Clean Water Act, California drought, Waters of the U.S., House Appropriations Committee, Interior-Environment bill, Army Corps of Engineers, Tom Vilsack, Pat Roberts, Debbie Stabenow, Chuck Conner, Jerry Moran, USDA Catfish Inspection

The Supreme Court earlier this year granted a stay of the Environmental Protection AgencyPs Clean Power Plan

Republicans are setting the stage for another fight over the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United StatesP (WOTUS) rule during budget negotiations with the White House later this year.