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Although EPA administrator Scott Pruitt favors elimination of tax credits for wind and solar power, he isn't calling the shots for the administration, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the No. 2 state in wind-generated electricity. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin "will be in the room when these agreements are made," said Grassley, a member of the tax-writing Finance Committee, and Mnuchin backs an ongoing phase-down of wind and solar tax credits."

The Obama administration has added USDA to the secretive inter-departmental Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for its review of the merger of state-owned ChemChina and Swiss-based Syngenta, said Reuters. Farm-state senators wanted USDA to be included in the review to make …