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The Senate Finance Committee is stepping up an investigation in what many lawmakers from both parties say is an abuse of conservation tax incentives that is costing the U.S. Treasury billions. 

Conservation advocates, major corporations and farm groups band together to launch a private market to reward soil carbon and clean water.

Industry groups say the Trump administration's plan to make the H-2A farmworker visa program easier for growers to use would instead drive up their labor costs and create new wage disparities.

A decision by Maui County, Hawaii, appears to have ended hopes of farm groups for a favorable Supreme Court decision on the scope of the Clean Water Act.

Aguiar-Curry discussed the challenge of representing so many interests as a Democrat and her disappointment over SB 1, as well as her bills that passed and those that didn’t.

GMO lawsuit advances * California has a swamp rat in Congress

Newsom touts environmental justice * U.S-China meeting set

‘Stubborn’ issue dogs USMCA * H-2A overhaul raises farm concerns