Andrew Wheeler

Fresh off Thanksgiving many fridges remain stuffed with leftovers, the Environmental Protection Agency wants consumers to consider the environment when it comes to food waste. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says more than 70 billion pounds of food waste ends up in American landfills every year, contributing to methane emissions and wasting food supply chain resources ...

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants the Department of Justice to investigate funding for environmental groups. In a letter to the Justice Department, Wheeler cited concerns the groups were receiving secret funding from foreign countries, specifically China and Russia ...

A recent EPA proposal would streamline the regulation of certain plant-incorporated protectants. The proposal allows biotech crops containing pesticide traits to be exempt from select regulations if they meet certain reporting requirements ...

Michael Crowder, President-elect of the National Association of Conservation Districts has been appointed to the EPA’s Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee. Crowder, the General Manager of Barker Ranch in West Richland, was recommended by Representative Dan Newhouse. “D ...

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler voiced disappointment in a court decision to vacate registrations for three dicamba herbicides. Wheeler said of the ruling, "The 2020 growing season is well underway, and this creates an undue burden for our first conservationists – farmers." ...

The EPA announced last week a new method for conducting biological evaluations under the Endangered Species Act. The change seeks to assure that pesticide registration review actions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act do not jeopardize endangered species ...

On Thursday, Eastern Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers asked the EPA to look into Puget Sound pollution.  McMorris Rodgers said during a Thursday hearing that it’s not the Snake River dams that are the problem when it comes to the Puget Sound orcas, but rather western Washington.  She said Gover...

EPA Administer Andrew Wheeler, says the agency is committed to reducing animal testing.   “I issued a memo that convinced the agency to important goals: such as reducing mammal study requests for funding 30% by 2025, and then eliminating all requests for funding by 2035,” Wheeler noted.  “Any requests ...

The voices calling for the EPA to pull its 2012 Yakima Valley Nitrate study and conduct a peer review continues to grow.  Joining producers, farmers and lawmakers is Eastern Washington Family Farmers.   EWFF Executive Director Gerald Baron says the study, which was launched in response to a local newspaper article, aimed at proving dairies in the Yakima Valley were responsible for elevated nitrate