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Lawmakers are back in D.C. this week after a two-week recess, and there is a lot on their agenda, starting with the GOP attempt to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from office.

The latest outbreak of highly avian pathogenic influenza has now claimed a large layer operation owned by the nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods. Nearly 2 million birds will be killed at the Texas operation, the company said Tuesday.

The fight over whether EPA should keep allowing paraquat to be sprayed on U.S. fields continued with dueling comments submitted to EPA on its recent reconsideration of a wide range of issues involving the controversial herbicide.

Grizzly bears could soon return to Washington's North Cascades under a plan proposed by the National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service.

A new USDA study of conservation practice  adoption shows relatively few major differences between farmers who own their land and those who cash-rent or share-rent their acreage.

EPA is warning farmworkers of “significant health risks to pregnant individuals and their developing babies” from exposure to the herbicide DCPA (dacthal) and said, “it will be pursuing action,” including possible suspension of the product’s registration, the agency said Monday.

New EPA greenhouse gas standards requiring steep emissions reductions for heavy-duty trucks and buses don’t have the same buy-in from the industry enjoyed by the agency’s rule on cars and medium-duty vehicles released about a week earlier.