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Data reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency on the safety of glyphosate fail to prove or even suggest the herbicide causes cancer in humans, according to an agency paper posted online in advance of a meeting of EPA scientific advisers next month. `The available data a

Trans-Pacific Partnership, Senator Orrin Hatch, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Zippy Duvall, Nick Giordano, American Farm Bureau, National Pork Producers Council, Senator Jeff Sessions, Senate Judiciary Committee, Bob Young, Bayer, Monsanto

Lawmakers and witnesses at a House hearing on agricultural trade with Cuba were in near unanimous agreement that increased commerce would benefit U.S. farmers, but some expressed concerns that it would also strengthen the Castro regime.

Nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission assured the Senate Agriculture Committee that they will regularly seek input from farmers and keep in mind the impact of regulations on the agribusiness sector. However, the Democratic nominee, Christopher Brummer, also

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2016 - The Senate voted 95-3 today to approve a bill that would finance waterway improvement projects in 30 states and improve drinking water delivery systems. The bill also includes a provision exempting some farmers with aboveground fuel storage tank

Discussions about agricultural policy usually focus on how the federal government should help farmers. However, the other side of the equation is also critical. How does the federal government intervene in ways that makes it more difficult for farmers to farm their land?

EPA0s disparate handling of E10 and E15 with regard to fuel volatility regulation is stifling the widespread adoption of E15 and mid-level ethanol blends, says a bipartisan group of seven Midwest governors in a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The letter urges EPA to allo

- The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe0s protest against the Dakota Access pipeline has received so much attention that President Obama, while on his recent Asia trip, was questioned about it by a Malaysian student at a press conference.

The renewable chemical industry may be small as a percentage of the overall chemical industry, but it0s steadily growing and producing jobs from Massachusetts to California and lots of places in between.

Using high-performance computing capabilities, the Energy Department0s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) produced a study that shows how the power grid of the Eastern U.S. could accommodate higher levels of wind and solar photovoltaic generation, with much