environment

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.

President Obama has signed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, also known as WRRDA, which will put Americans to work modernizing our water infrastructure and restoring some of our most vital ecosystems.

A three time Emmy Award winning journalist will moderate the next Food Dialogues in Chicago.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service last week released new 2012 Census of Agriculture profiles for the 50 states, Puerto Rico and more than 3,000 counties in the nation.

Several counties in both Idaho and Washington have been declared as primary natural disaster areas due to a recent drought.