The Senate Finance Committee is stepping up an investigation in what many lawmakers from both parties say is an abuse of conservation tax incentives that is costing the U.S. Treasury billions. 

Oregon's Wyden reboots his 2017 energy tax bill, festooned with climate-friendly energy incentives, then subtracts several oil/gas industry tax breaks, to top off a Senate Democratic tax policy plan.

With a new farm bill enacted and trade wars ongoing, the eyes of U.S. agriculture will shift to the Senate Finance Committee, where farm groups will have a critical ally at the top in new Chairman Chuck Grassley and several more in the panel’s membership.

Lawmakers return to Washington next week facing a battle over tax cuts and the possibility of a government shutdown, if they can’t agree on a budget for the rest of the fiscal year.