The Newsom administration is drafting an emergency regulation to curtail senior water rights for thousand of farmers who depend on deliveries through the Delta.

The nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, which manages about one of every 10 acres of surface lands in the U.S., will get a vote Thursday in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee after months of debate over her role in the spiking of trees on a national forest in 1989.

A California Superior Court Judge has ruled that a California woman’s claim that Bayer failed to warn her of the dangers of using Roundup is pre-empted by federal law, an argument Bayer has so far failed to make successfully in the federal courts.

Val Dolcini, a former Farm Service Agency administrator and California environmental official, will be the newest member of Syngenta's Washington office.

With drought conditions worsening in many parts of California and more water restrictions, farmers will likely idle between 600,000 to 800,000 acres this year, says Roland Fumasi, EVP & North American Regional Head, RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.

Four lawsuits have been filed in California state courts on behalf of families who claim repeated exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos left their children with lasting neurological damage.