Americans waste tons of food each year, but an effort is underway to put that food to better use so it doesn't wind up in the landfill.  An effort in Wichita involving a grocery store chain and community groups is trying to cut food waste in half during the next 15 years.

New research indicates that Dow Chemical's Enlist Duo herbicide could be more toxic than the EPA previously thought.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.

A new EPA rule about water pollution has been put on hold. A federal judge has prevented new regulations from taking effect while a lawsuit against the EPA, filed by 13 farm states, moves its way through the court system.

The Clean Power Plan, aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants, includes some bad news for the proposed expansion of a coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas--it stands to be regulated under the more stringent standards for new plants...if it's ever built at all.