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Lawmakers return to their lame duck session this week while President-elect Donald Trump is expected to resume naming members of his incoming administration. Trump has yet to announce any of his key nominees for agriculture, including Agriculture and Interior secretaries and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency...

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal regulators have finalized water-quality rules for Washington state tied partly to how much fish people eat, approving many aspects of the state's plan but also setting some stricter limits than the state wanted. The Environmental Protection Agency's action Tuesday comes years after contentious debate over how clean the state's rivers and bays need to be so people can safely

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. (AP) — Six schools in the Clark County city of Battle Ground have reported elevated levels of lead in their water. The Columbian reports that testing shows that the six public schools have lead contents above the federal Environmental Protection Agency's recommended lead limit of 15 parts per billion...

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...

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

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The latest estimate is out to complete the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The U.S. Department of Energy says the remaining work will cost $107.7 billion and be largely completed by 2060. Monday's estimate was released by the Department of Energy with its regulators, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Washington. ...

The EPA has announced higher volumes of renewable fuel than the levels EPA proposed in June under the Renewable Fuel Standard. While the levels are an increase from the previous proposal by the EPA, they are still below the statutory levels...

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced last Thursday she believes there is now enough support in the U.S. Senate to consider her bill that would scrap the “Waters of the U.S.” rule. Senator Ernst has secured enough support to ensure the Senate can consider the bill without a filibuster...

The deadline is fast approaching for implementation of Positive Train Control safety systems and some say the economy will start to feel the effects next month. The Association of American Railroads says while the deadline nears at the end of this year, it will not be met...

An appeals court has ordered a nationwide stay against the Waters of the U.S. Rule. The court decision says the rule could be overturned based on the merits of the lawsuits filed against the regulation. The Order was issued by the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday...