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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 19, 2024
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - Say hello to the new members of the House Agriculture Committee. At a business meeting last week, Chairman Mike Conaway welcomed the rookies, six Republicans and six Democrats.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - Colorado’s Republican attorney general sent a letter last week to the Democrats who control the Boulder County Board of Commissioners, calling their moratorium on new oil and gas development in the county “illegal.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The effects of distributed solar on retail electricity prices are, and will continue to be, quite small compared to other issues, according to a study by Galen Barbose, a scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 - Energy experts will be coming together at the end of February to address America’s energy challenges at the annual Energy Innovation Summit.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - Changes in America’s energy profile are affecting U.S. employment in key sectors of the economy, according to the Department of Energy’s 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - A new analysis released by the Agriculture Department finds that greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) associated with corn-based ethanol can be 43 percent lower than gasoline.
In an effort to drive down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste, the Energy Department (DOE) has announced the creation of its Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emission
Biodiesel production in Iowa reached a record 297 million gallons in 2016, surpassing 2015 s total of 242 million gallons, according to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.
The Comprehensive Plan Update to guide some $3 billion in investments to improve the resources and economies of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was recently finalized.
A technique for converting surplus clean energy from solar panels or wind farms into hydrogen, which can then be blended with natural gas and utilized in °everything from home appliances to power plants,° has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of California
