The State Water Survey projects that in the coming decades, Illinois will require 20 to 50 percent more water. But planning for the increase has been inadequate, largely due to a halt in planning because of the ongoing state budget crisis.
Last week, President Donald Trump announced the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, a global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions to limit global warming to an increase of two degrees Celsius. In December 2015, University of Illinois Crop Sciences Professor Stephen Long addr
A panel of experts on genetically modified crops explained the effects of GMOs and contradicted common misconceptions about GMOs during a public conversation March 8. Find related materials here.
Cronus Chemicals will start losing part of its $40 million in state tax incentives if its proposed $1.9 billion ammonia fertilizer plant is not operating by July 2, according to tax credit agreements.
Thousands of migrant workers, as well as other undocumented immigrants, may have been forced into labor in violation of federal anti-slavery laws, a federal judge ruled last week.
Since 2000, the percentage of genetically engineered corn planted in the United States has grown from 25 percent to 92 percent in 2016. But unless yields increase significantly, experts say the world will not be able to grow enough food to feed itself by 2050, with food shortages anticipated as soon
The effects of climate change on agriculture could cost the federal government as much as $4.2 billion more annually in crop insurance subsidies by 2080, a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office found.
Federal government officials are no longer allowed to communicate with the public and media about certain environmental issues per orders from the Trump administration, multiple news outlets reported Monday and Tuesday.
In one of his first major acts as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday pulling the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a move that the agriculture industry says will cost them more than $4.4 billion in revenue each year.
“During his tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma, Mr. Pruitt has blurred the distinction between official and political actions, often at the behest of corporations he will regulate if confirmed to lead EPA. While the disclosures Mr. Pruitt made to OGE may be sufficient to ascertain his personal f
Keeping up with the confirmation hearings of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations? The process is likely to be full of controversy — particularly when it comes to Trump’s picks and climate change.
The complaint, the 15th filed against China by the Obama administration since 2009, argues that China is not “transparent, predictable or fair” in its administration of tariff-rate quotients, which protect its domestic farmers by taxing imports at a higher rate.
