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The Biden administration will replace Trump-era changes to Endangered Species Act regulations that farm and other business groups welcomed as inserting “common sense” into ESA implementation.

The state has released its first assessments of plans for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

While a final budget agreement is yet to materialize, lawmakers have expressed general agreement on a few key items.

Small businesses have a crucial role to play in ensuring COVID-19 vaccines get into the arms of rural Americans, who have been less eager than their urban and suburban counterparts to get the shots, panelists said at a virtual summit Thursday.

Water users along individual tributaries are hoping to avoid state mandated cutbacks through a voluntary approach.

The governing board that sets the standards for Cal/OSHA will decide Thursday which COVID-19 workplace restrictions can be lifted when Gov. Gavin Newsom reopens California on June 15.

Appointees garnered broad support, but lawmakers raised general concerns about gaps in the board’s oversight that have led to rising regulatory costs for communities of color as well as low-income and rural communities.

The Democratic party's chief rural outreach official takes a new job and some West Coast offices add some new staff on Capitol Hill.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering new climate disclosure rules for corporations that could have far-reaching implications for U.S. farmers, depending on how stringent the regulations turn out to be.