Lawmaker eyes ban on common corn herbicide
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ST. PAUL - A leading state senator said he may push for a ban on a herbicide commonly applied to corn crops across Minnesota, citing research that suggests the chemical causes deformities in frogs and other health hazards.
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By Michelle Koetters, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 1--LEXINGTON -- Farmers need a "safety net" when it comes to commodity payments, and a congress-man for Central Illinois vows to make the issue his top concern for the 2007 farm bill.   The U.S.
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A scientific panel of international experts has concluded that the unintended spread of  U.S. genetically modified corn in Mexico poses a potential threat that should be limited or stopped.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet.
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By The Associated Press  HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Sierra Club asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to ban industrial and household detergents containing a class of toxic chemical compounds that can cause male fish to develop certain female characteristics.
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This week, Sen. Orrin Hatch, with Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, are pushing a bill authorizing mycoherbicides as part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy reauthorization bill. This mycoherbicides bill will cause a health and environmental disaster.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) expressed disappointment with today's House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management markup of H.R. 2419, the 2007 Farm Bill.
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A top Republican lawmaker raised  concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ability  to monitor drug safety following Merck & Co. Inc.'s recall of  its arthritis drug last week, according to a letter made public  on Tuesday.
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Congress should eliminate a $5  billion a year farm subsidy and find less expensive ethanol  subsidies, said two former U.S. Senate majority leaders and  farm-program guardians on Wednesday.
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SACRAMENTO - The federal government is proposing a temporary restriction on 66 pesticides that scientists have blamed for wiping out the threatened California red-legged frog in some parts of the state.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The lawmaker whose bill would block California and other states from regulating tailpipe emissions is standing firm despite opposition from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Rep.
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WASHINGTON (CBS) Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he will introduce legislation imposing drug testing standards on professional athletes if baseball players and owners do not adopt a stringent crackdown on steroids by January
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A U.S. congressman is pushing a not-so-quick fix in the debate over illegal immigrants from Mexico: free contraceptives.
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A Massachusetts lawmaker is trying to get himself out of a sticky situation by dropping his opposition to Marshmallow Fluff.
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By AMY LORENTZEN  DES MOINES, Iowa - The state's Environmental Protection Commission is closer to implementing a ban on the spreading of manure on land planted with soybeans.