A California farmer agreed Tuesday to pay $1.1 million for plowing federally protected wetlands on his wheat field, according to the Department of Justice. This ends a five-year legal battle over the ...

President Trump has sought to help farmers by rolling back the Obama administration’s hotly contested Waters of the United States rule, but it didn’t happen soon enough to help John Duarte. The farmer ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. This week, a federal judge will determine whether to levy a multimillion-dollar ...

Following government rules is often a tough enough task. But when federal agencies secretly move their own rules’ goalposts and then threaten millions of dollars in fines for noncompliance, it can be ...

He’d seen something he found disturbing: a tractor parked in an open field. Fields and tractors are common in this rural region halfway between Sacramento and the Oregon border. The area is known for ...

It’s been six years since John Duarte set out to grow wheat on 500 acres south of Red Bluff. But no crop has been harvested since he planted wheat in 2012. Only weeds grow on the 450-acre plot ...

The farmer who faces $2.8 million in fines after plowing a wheat field in Tehama County is appealing to the Trump administration for relief. John Duarte said because his case originated under ...