The House of Representatives approved controversial climate change legislation, known formally as the American Clean Energy Security Act (ACES), late Friday by a 219 to 212 vote.

NAWG Secretary-Treasurer Erik Younggren traveled to Washington this week to testify on farm bill implementation before the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

There’s still time to sign-up for DTN’s in-depth ACRE Webinar, scheduled for July 1 at 9 a.m. Eastern.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Clean Water Restoration Act, S. 787, on a party-line vote Thursday after accepting an amendment meant to make the bill less onerous on the agriculture industry.

A food safety bill that would require unprecedented on-farm regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved forward in the House this week.

The Los Angeles Times ran an in-depth feature on the potential impact of Ug99 last Sunday, attracting attention from bloggers and Twitter users typically uninterested in agricultural pathogens.

Discussions continue between leaders of the House Agriculture Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee about how or what kind of agriculture piece will be included in pending climate change legislation.

The House Agriculture Committee held a marathon session Thursday to examine the pending Waxman-Markey climate change bill, though it did little to clarify how agriculture would be worked into the final legislation or what role USDA expects to play in any cap-and-trade program.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this week ordered a two-year stay of a January decision that will almost certainly mean producers will have to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for all applications of pesticides. The ruling from the Court in National Cotton Council of America v U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was [...]

A food safety bill with enormous reach is working its way through the House, raising major concerns about new Food and Drug Administration regulation of farm operations and throughout the processing chain.

The House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture subcommittee approved a $22.9 billion FY2010 appropriations bill this week to fund USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

DTN has scheduled a Webinar targeted at wheat, corn and soybean producers still considering how their operations would fare under the new Average Crop Revenue Election, or ACRE, program.

The House Agriculture Committee announced late in the day Friday that it will consider climate change legislation at a hearing on June 11.

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health held a hearing this week focusing on the merits of local and regional procurement (LRP) versus traditional in-kind food aid.

An expected cloture vote on a railroad antitrust bill was cancelled early this week after its sponsor, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) agreed to work together on a comprehensive rail reform bill.