endangered species act

The rusty patched bumble bee is one step closer to becoming the first bee in the United States to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.Its range has shrunk by 92 percent since the 1990s, a major reason that the Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list it as endangered...

The FDA has awarded grants up to $1.5 million to help tribal operations and local food producers receive appropriate food safety training. Agri-Pulse reports that a new survey shows cover crops get rave reviews from producers that plant them, while those that don't, are skeptical of their benefits...

Monsanto’s reported pivot towards BASF has the business community a buzz . Bloomberg columnist Brooke Sutherland wrote that it could be “a ploy to get more money out of Bayer.” It remains to be seen if this is rumor or reality. The House approved the 2017 Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit contending that 26 dams operating in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana are harming bull trout and violating the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies on Monday in Portland, Oregon, names the U...

The Irish Times reports that for the first time in history the US now holds more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. Meanwhile, U.S. ports are threatened with a backlog. Northwest and California export terminals are expected to experienced delays that could create a backlog of age commodity exports due to the fact a new safety rule requiring exporters to report the weight of shipping contai

Ethanol companies last week received a boost when the Federal regulators proposed to raise the amount of ethanol that refineries must blend into US gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency is behind the proposal that is unpopular with oil companies as the Agency wants to require refineries to blend nearly 19 billion gallons of corn based ethanol and other bio-fuels into US gas in 2017... Read

Lawmakers are cued up to examine issues ranging from farm credit to the Endangered Species Act as the House Appropriations Committee meets today to mark up fiscal 2017 spending legislation for the USDA and FDA. The Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved the $21...

  A lawsuit accuses the government of dragging its feet on deciding whether alligator snapping turtles and eight other species around the country need federal protection. The Center for Biological Diversity says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed decision deadlines for species including the California spotted owl, a cat-sized hunting mammal called the Northern Rockies fisher, and an Alabama

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Northwest fisheries managers are creating a response plan should there be a return of warm water conditions biologists say was the main factor in killing some 90 percent of adult sockeye salmon returning to the Columbia Basin last summer. ...

The Canadian government has hopes the 12 member nations involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership can reach an agreement before the weekend. More importantly, the government hopes the deal can be wrapped up ahead of the countries October elections...