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The Department of Energy will provide $4 million in funding for four research and development projects to assess the occurrence of rare-earth minerals and other critical materials that play a vital role in many clean energy technologies, including solar panels, wind turbines and el

Solutions from the Land (SfL), a collaboration led by an acclaimed group of active farm, forestry and conservation leaders, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to design and implement a three to five year climate smart/resilie

To increase the awareness of energy-efficient buildings in the U.S. real estate marketplace, CoStar, partnering with DOE, will display energy-efficiency and energy performance information in CoStarPs online property databases.

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A study by UK-based PG Economics finds that farmers around the world who use genetically modified (GM) seeds reaped economic benefits averaging more than $100 per hectare (about 2.5 acres) in 2014 while at the same time improving the environmental sustainability of thei

Egg producers are winning support on both sides of the aisle in their fight against the Agriculture DepartmentPs proposal to require hens on organic farms to roam outside their barns. Large-scale producers say the rule, which is supported by the Organic Trade Association, would

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are competing for the farm vote in California, but theyPre taking completely different paths to win the support of producers in the countryPs largest agricultural state.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has repeatedly assured the agriculture community that the new Clean Water Rule (currently stayed by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals) continues to exempt normal farming and ranching practices, including planting, harvesting, and moving livestock&

Sustainability needs to become the watchword for companies in the business of feeding the growing world population, CEOs of five major food companies said at a Washington, D.C., forum held to discuss the release of PFood for Thought: A Call to Action on the Future of Su

The 2017 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) proposed by EPA disappointed both biofuels and fossil fuels advocates.