Articles by Noah Wicks

The Bureau of Reclamation has reached out to agriculture interests in the West as the agency considers how to spend the $4 billion earmarked in the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act for bolstering water-saving efforts in the Colorado River Basin and other drought-stricken areas.

Scientists are reporting some major success in sharply boosting crop yields by engineering plants to be more efficient at photosynthesis - their process of turning light into food.

The Biden administration is wasting little time selling the media and the public on that giant new spending and tax bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that Colorado River water shortages had passed a threshold that will require unprecedented water cuts in Arizona and Nevada, but a multi-state consensus on future cuts remains elusive.

Seven states in the Colorado River Basin have emerged from 3 months of negotiations with no agreement for how to conserve between 2 and 4 million acre-feet of water in 2023, leaving that decision in the hands of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Bayer says it will continue to provide “essential healthcare and agriculture products” to Russia because to withhold them “would only multiply the war’s ongoing toll on human life.”

Biofuel industry groups are welcoming passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the historic package of nearly $370 billion in climate-related funding.

Democrats are set today to send their historic climate bill to President Joe Biden for his signature.

The White House is no doubt glad to see the Consumer Price Index stay unchanged for July. But there is little good news in the latest data for supermarket prices.

The House Rules Committee meets today to prepare the Inflation Reduction Act for Friday’s debate on the House floor.