Steve Davies

An EPA rule regulating plant-incorporated protectants received swift criticism Thursday from groups representing the seed industry and soybean growers, who said it would hamper innovation.

In a major victory for farm groups, the Supreme Court on Thursday significantly reduced the scope of the Clean Water Act as interpreted by the federal government, ruling that the law only regulates wetlands when they are “as a practical matter indistinguishable from waters of the United States.”

Eight years after ground was first broken for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, government officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate the facility’s official opening.

Delaware Democrat and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Tom Carper plans to retire from the Senate at the end of his term next year.