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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been in use for more than six decades, but has only recently been used to produce a significant portion of crude oil in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
- Last week, 14 teams of researchers from seven Energy Department (DOE) national laboratories convened at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, to begin a seven-week Lab-Corps clean energy entrepreneurial boot camp.
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) stayed flat for the second year in a row, according to analysis of preliminary data for 2015 recently released by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Major portions of rural America have no access to broadband. Fewer than one in five Americans (17 percent) can0t access what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defines as broadband, but that level is three times higher 0 a whopping 53% -- when
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wants a thorough governmental review of ChemChina's expected $43 billion purchase of Syngenta, citing concerns about U.S. food security.
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 -Two new lines of genetically engineered (GE) corn will not be regulated, USDA0s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced today.
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2016 - EPA should 0proceed with the utmost caution0 in conducting risk assessments of neonicotinoid insecticides, Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a letter today to Jim Jones, the agency
The U.S. renewable energy sector keeps making gains -- as demand for wind, solar and biofuels keep climbing, despite attacks by the fossil fuel industry.
For years, farmers, biotech companies and the food industry have been fighting off proposals for mandatory GMO labeling out of fear that it would force manufacturers to switch to non-biotech ingredients and cripple the technology.
Former presidential candidate Ben Carson, defending his endorsement of Donald Trump, famously opined that there are two Trumps -- the bombastic public version and the more cerebral Trump who in private can converse in detail about complex policies. Two Iowans who spent some tim
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