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The state water board has begun taking testimony in its long process to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the proposed off-stream reservoir.

Asm. Steve Bennett has taken to the sea with a CAFO ban for octopi, as environmental groups are describing it.

The Biden administration is following the EU's lead, cutting out dairy digester-derived hydrogen, while California says the federal rules are too stringent and it already has appropriate safeguards in place.

As the state races toward aggressive climate goals and pulls back on incentive grants supporting the energy transition, lawmakers are looking for other ways to ease some of the costs put on industries and Californians.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has a temporary new chief transparency officer and Mike Glymph has been hired by Monument Advocacy.

The Biden administration is having success at removing barriers to U.S. ag exports despite the lack of new tariff-reducing trade agreements, according to the U.S. Trade Representative's chief ag trade negotiator, Doug McKalip.

New Endangered Species Act rules received a mixed reaction from environmental groups and resource users, who have been watching closely to see how the Biden administration implements the 51-year-old law.

More than 60 ag groups, led by Bayer, have formed the Modern Ag Alliance to advocate for continued use of crop protection chemicals – glyphosate in particular.

Cannon Michael, board chair of the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority noted that such projects only work if you have the water to run through them.