environment

NASCAR and American Ethanol partnered in 2011 to bring E15 to the sport and since then Sunoco Green E15 has fueled every car and truck in all of NASCAR’s national race series.

The Washington Department of Ecology is fining a seafood company more than $112,000 for an oil spill caused by the accidental sinking of its vessel, the Clam Digger, in July 2013 near Anacortes. Authorities have determined negligence was a factor in the sinking and spill...

Florida Representative Steve Southerland has proposed the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protect Act which would halt any action of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers regarding the proposed definition of waters of the United States.

Farmers and ranchers who waited two and a half years for a Farm Bill are now getting some relief according to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Work on the most contaminated former Tiger Mart site in Yakima is expected to start within the next month thanks to $500,000 grant from the state Department of Ecology.

A coalition of business and agriculture leaders launched a Day of Action on immigration reform yesterday with a media conference call.

On Monday the Supreme Court said the Environmental Protection Agency could not rewrite specific standards for power plant and factory emissions of greenhouse gases written into the law according to the Washington Post.

Last Thursday, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts and 29 other Republican Senators introduced legislation to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its proposed Waters of the U.S. rule.

Eight conservation groups are complaining that it is too easy to kill wolves that attack livestock in Washington state. The groups recently filed a petition asking the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to require livestock producers to exhaust nonlethal measures to prevent wolf depredations before any wolves are killed.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary Tuesday night to Tea Party candidate Dave Brat.