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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Lowey will not seek reelection

10/16/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

Rep. Nita Lowey has announced she will not seek another term in Congress and Walmart U.S. has selected a new CEO.

Daybreak West: Enviros to pull out of Voluntary Agreements

09/24/19 12:22 AM By Brad Hooker

Newsom touts environmental justice * U.S-China meeting set

EPA, Corps scrap 2015 WOTUS with repeal rule

09/11/19 11:59 PM By Steve Davies

The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers are formally repealing the 2015 “waters of the U.S.” rule in advance of publishing a new WOTUS rule around the end of the year.

Farmers like new ESA rules, but enviros promise court battles

08/12/19 2:41 PM By Steve Davies

The Interior and Commerce departments have announced changes to the Endangered Species Act that were cheered by farmers and ranchers but harshly criticized by environmentalists, who vowed to challenge them in court.

EPA to allow continued use of chlorpyrifos

07/18/19 4:51 PM By Steve Davies

The Environmental Protection Agency will not revoke tolerances for chlorpyrifos, an insecticide environmental and farmworker groups say is a dangerous neurotoxin and should be banned.

Farm groups, enviros at odds over EPA/Corps WOTUS proposal

04/17/19 6:25 AM By Steve Davies

The Trump administration’s proposed new definition of “Waters of the United States” in the Clean Water Act is either a radical policy shift that misinterprets Supreme Court precedent and will leave up to 70 percent of tributaries and half the nation’s wetlands unprotected, or it’s a constitutionally valid approach to regulating the nation’s waters that preserves the states’ lead role over water pollution control and land use planning.

Broad-spectrum insecticide chlorpyrifos a target at state, federal level

01/23/19 6:20 AM By Steve Davies

Growers in California and several other states are fighting to retain use of chlorpyrifos, a broad-spectrum insecticide environmentalists and farmworker advocates have sought to ban for years.

Stewardship is key to new FDA antimicrobial strategy

09/14/18 5:22 PM By Steve Davies

Bringing all medically important antimicrobial drugs approved for use in animals under veterinary oversight and promoting proper stewardship of antimicrobials are among the goals of a five-year plan released by the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine on Friday.

Chlorpyrifos restrictions could be in store in California

07/30/18 6:37 PM By Steve Davies

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation should list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant, a state scientific panel has recommended following review of a comprehensive risk assessment of the widely used insecticide.

House panel advances bill to streamline broadband permitting on federal lands

06/06/18 4:10 PM By Steve Davies

A bill to expedite permitting for broadband projects on federal land easily cleared the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, cheering advocates of rural broadband.

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Tom Nassif, President and CEO of Western Growers

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Tom Nassif, President and CEO of Western Growers. After nearly 20-years of service to farmers in New Mexico, Colorado, California and Arizona, Nassif is retiring in February 2020. In this interview, Nassif speaks to the need for meaningful immigration reform and the hope that Congress will address the issue yet this year. The Western Growers have made great strides in consumer outreach and implemented meaningful reform in product safety, traceability and sustainability. Nassif remains hopeful that difficult trade negotiations will yield expanded global market access for American farmers and calls for quick action to approve the USMCA.

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Opinion: How US foreign aid boosts the economy back home

Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public Land-Grant Universities, talks how foreign aid to low-income countries not only gives their economy a boost but gives the United States' economy a boost as well.