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Blanche Lincoln, chair of the Senate agriculture committee, is headed for defeat. You won't catch me shedding tears over her exit, but who will replace her in this key role? A Big Ag politician, or one who might support Farm Bill reform?
In 1999, there were three grape vineyards in Iowa. Now there are 230. But each could be wiped out by a commonly applied pesticide called 2, 4-D.
Colorado's climate scientists dismissed claims made by the state's Republican candidate for the US Senate, Ken Buck, that global warming is a hoax.
Texas and three other states with attorneys general beholden to Dirty Oil have vowed to sue California as a last-ditch effort to kill AB 32.
Well, that didn't take long. Congress is barely back in town and already there's talk of yet another attempt to rein in the EPA.
Thirty-seven governorships are up for grabs this election, and they'll have a huge impact on energy & climate issues. Who are the winners and losers?
This year's mosquitoes are sucking all the life out of summer on a farm in Nebraska.
Low-population states often play host to one-issue activists hired by national campaigns. Local grassroots groups could yield much better results.
You're probably familiar with the iconic black-and-white photos of farmworkers by Dorothea Lange and others, but these color images offer a gripping, intimate glimpse of the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small-town residents.