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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack acknowledged that cotton growers need help, but reaffirmed his position that the department is currently prohibited from designating cottonseed as an oilseed, which would allow growers to receive farm program payments.

After failing in recent years to meet mandated timelines for the Renewable Fuel Standard, the Environmental Protection Agency is vowing to get the program back on schedule.

Turning livestock manure into biogas isnt just for generating electricity any more.

USDA officials fielded tough questions from a philosophically split House Ag Appropriations panel Wednesday on the president s new summer feeding program, which is projected to cost billions of dollars, and drug testing for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (S

Dr. Robert Califf, a prominent cardiologist who spent more than three decades as a medical researcher at Duke University, was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

- Despite some marketplace and regulatory challenges, the ethanol industry is poised for continued expansion. That was one of the key messages delivered during Growth Energy s seventh annual Executive Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla. earlier this week.

A bill to double Oregon s renewable energy mandate could be headed for Senate consideration as early as today, after being passed by the House earlier this year.

The U.S., Canada and Mexico have launched a website to share energy information in North America. The collaboration grew out of a December 2014 memorandum of understanding among the three countries to create an institutional framework to share publicly available materials to improv

According to a new study from Dodge Data & Analytics World Green Building Trends 2016, Developing Markets Accelerate Global Green Growth the percentage of companies that expect to have more than 60 percent of their building projects certified green is anticipated to more than d

Space weather can significantly impact electric power systems on Earth, sometimes knocking out power for millions of people for extended periods of time. On March 9, 1989, a coronal mass ejection (CME) set off a chain of events