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The nation`s biggest net zero commercial building retrofit, the Net Zero Plus Electric Training Institute (NZP-ETI), was recently dedicated in Greater Los Angeles. The Department of Energy (DOE) defines a `zero net energy (ZNE) building` as one w

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The House Appropriations Committee today voted 31 to 18 to approve a $32.1 billion spending bill to fund the Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service in fiscal year 2017. The bill includes a provision that would block the EPA from implementing its

The Supreme Court earlier this year granted a stay of the Environmental Protection AgencyPs Clean Power Plan

Republicans are setting the stage for another fight over the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United StatesP (WOTUS) rule during budget negotiations with the White House later this year.

- The Farm Credit System (FCS), the government-chartered complex of lending agencies owned by farmers and their cooperatives, is celebrating its first century this week with a series of events in Washington. FCS traces its origin to President Woodrow WilsonPs signin

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop says a final energy bill will have to include provisions to address the drought in California and other Western states. The House-passed legislation (S. 2012) includes provisions sponsored by Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif

Representatives of small, rural banks are pleading for Congress to ease the regulatory burden that resulted from the Dodd-Frank reforms enacted after the Great Recession.

Biotechnology may be a boon to agriculture, but it hasnPt stopped DuPont Pioneer from continuing to use conventional breeding, as well, the companyPs president said in an interview with Agri-Pulse.

The administrationPs top trade official told a group of agricultural stakeholders on Tuesday that if Congress doesnPt approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership by the end of the year, itPs PunclearP when lawmakers may get to it.