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CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of people have marched through downtown Chicago and outside Trump Tower to demand action to prevent climate change and protect the environment. Saturday's rain-soaked march coincided with hundreds of similar events across the U...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Seattle-based seafood processor that operates in Alaska would pay a $1.3 million civil penalty under a proposed settlement of clean air violations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Westward Seafoods also would be required to spend $1...

**The American Coalition for Ethanol has outlined regulatory reform priorities it wants for the EPA. Executive Vice President, Brian Jennings says their top priority will be for the EPA to revise emission standards to allow E15 and higher ethanol blends to be sold year-round...

**State agencies that are beginning to implement new produce safety and other standards required by the Food Safety Modernization Act will need a lot more money in fiscal 2018. That’s according to the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture in its annual appropriations letter to Congress...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A state senator who has been juggling his legislative duties while working in the Trump administration has collected nearly $6,000 from the state in daily expense allowances so far this session. Sen. Doug Ericksen, a Republican from Ferndale, has been splitting time between Olympia and a temporary job with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D...

**Federal agencies that regulate biotechnology may NOT have the staffing and expertise to handle the plethora of new products expected over the next five to 10 years. According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the EPA, FDA, USDA will need to be prepared for this potential increase, including finding effective means of evaluation that maintains pub

**The EPA will write a new definition of “waters of the U.S.” rules that is less expansive than the Obama administration’s rule that the agency is withdrawing. That was the word from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday in an exclusive Agri-Pulse interview...

**For the first time, new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency spoke with a few dozen EPA employees and the media this week after his swearing in. Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt outlined general principles, but offered few specifics...

The full slate of House Agriculture Committee Republicans has been finalized, bringing a clearer picture to the panel that will shape the next farm bill. The committee will add six Republican freshmen to replace retired members and those who left for other appointments...

Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado was scheduled to talk to Trump about the job at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The word comes from incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer after Trump was to interview Elsa Murano, the ex-USDA official and former president of Texas A&M University. ...