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After more than seven years of research and analysis to qualify the environmental footprint of biofuels, the California Air Resources Board finally released its final Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) and biodiesel supporters cheered the news.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its preliminary report on U.S. total energy consumption for the first six months of 2015.

Epigenetics ° the study of trait variations caused by environmental factors that switch genes on and off - will be the focus of a $12.3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy/Genomic Science Program°s Office of Biological and Environmental Researc

The odds-on favorite to be the next House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, could hardly come from a more important agricultural district in the nation.

The fiscal year ends at midnight today, but lawmakers are on track to avert a government shutdown. The Senate is set this morning to approve a continuing resolution (CR)

Jeb Bush°s plan to undo President Obama°s regulatory agenda has created some buzz, but it won°t be easy to carry out -- and it could take years to replace some of the rules, experts say.

Chatter surrounding the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) had died down in recent months, but an upcoming House Ag Committee hearing and a journal article critical of the science used in the committee°s report rekindled a few fires among opponents of some of the DGAC

Leading an entourage of 45 Arkansas agribusiness leaders and state officials to Cuba this week, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson became the first state chief executive to visit the island since President Obama's reopening of diplomatic relations with the communist nation.

A new law requiring California livestock producers to get a prescription to use antibiotics on farm animals is headed to the governor°s desk after the legislature approved a bill that goes beyond the Obama administration°s Veterinary Feed Directive.

All sides in the ongoing debate over pesticide use are still sorting out the implications of a federal appeals court decision to revoke the registration of sulfoxaflor, but one thing seems clear: Before approving any new chemical formulations, EPA...