Articles by Philip Brasher

Key House Republicans are demanding to know how well the Food and Drug Administration is securing proprietary information it collects from food producers under new food-safety regulations. In a letter to the FDA, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee are working on a possible compromise bill that could head off state GMO labeling requirements, the first of which is set to take effect in Vermont this summer.

Pizza chains, supermarkets and other retailers would get some relief from new menu labeling requirements under a bipartisan bill that has easily passed the House. The Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act, which the House approved 266-144, would soften penalty provisions in th

The Agriculture DepartmentPs inspector general is opening a broad investigation into complaints that agency officials have silenced USDA researchers on issues such as pesticides.

The biotech labeling negotiations led by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack broke down over whether GMOs had to be disclosed on food labels or whether it would be enough to ensure that electronic disclosure would be adequate to serve consumers, he says.

The Agriculture Department has formally launched what would be the most far-reaching overhaul of its biotechnology regulations since they were first developed decades ago.

President Barack Obama has taken some major steps to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, notably by imposing carbon limits on electric utilities and by increasing fuel efficiency requirements for cars and trucks. Now, he€s proposing another big step that he can€t do

The food industry, which is lobbying Congress to preempt state biotech labeling laws, is assuring Democratic senators that a smartphone-based system can provide all consumers, including the poor, the information they want about product ingredients.

President Obama releases his fiscal 2017 budget this week as congressional Republicans vow to accelerate debates on appropriations bills amid the heated campaign season.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has notified lawmakers he lacks the legal authority to provide subsidies for cottonseed, a blow to growers reeling from a plunge in global cotton prices. The industry had asked Vilsack to make cottonseed an eligible commodity under the new Price Loss Cover