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EPA Administrator Michael Regan has asked the agency's ag advisory committee to evaluate EPA's policies and programs "at the nexus of agriculture and climate change.”

The state water board has issued letters to water right holders warning them to prepare for curtailments as drought conditions persist.

The Air Resources Board has released the initial modeling results for managing natural and working lands for climate outcomes.

Publicly traded companies would have to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and supply chains and also report progress being made toward achieving reductions, under a proposal released Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Water interests are responding with calls for further conservation and infrastructure investment, while lawmakers revive an ambitious water bond proposal.

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act, a bill intended to unlock port bottlenecks that have snarled shipments of many farm commodities, gets a vote in the Senate Commerce Committee this week, while the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.

The nation’s largest agricultural water district contributes $4.7 billion annually to local and regional economies, along with 35,000 jobs.

Elaine Trevino has withdrawn from the nomination process to be the next chief agricultural trade negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, sending the USTR back to square one in its efforts to represent America’s farmers on the international stage.