…would drop the EPA budget from $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion. If enacted, the proposal would cease funding the Clean Power Plan, a signature Obama administration effort to combat climate…
Conaway’s Comments on Trump’s Budget Proposal
…Services Committee, this is important. I also appreciate that the President’s budget proposes to block the EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan and other job killing regulations put forward by the…
RFA Applauds Administration for Recalling Fuel Economy Rules, Allowing for a More Comprehensive Approach
Dinneen In response to the Trump administration’s decision recalling EPA’s federal fuel economy and emissions rules, and allowing for a data-driven review of the 2022-2025 standards, Renewable Fuels Association President…
Executive Order Initiates Review of WOTUS Rule
…to regulate water and land. In comments to the American Farm Bureau Federation on the day the executive order was signed, new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the WOTUS rule…
Western View: WOTUS Changes Coming Soon
…Court changed the definition of navigable waters. Western View Under President Obama the EPA wrote a rule that allowed them to monitor just about any action that affected waters that…
Former EPA Offical May Testify in Glyphosate Lawsuit
A former manager in the Environmental Protection Agency’s pesticide division may have to testify in court about an alleged role in helping Monsanto suppress inquiries about whether or not Roundup…
Trump Ends WOTUS, Ag Supports Move
As expected, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. Agriculture groups around the nation support the move….
Scott Pruitt Confirmed and Sworn in as EPA Administrator
…Tulsa. Scott has made it a priority to pass on to his children the same principled, family values with which he was raised. To see Administrator Pruitt’s biography, visit: https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epas-administrator…
Conaway Statement on Scott Pruitt Confirmation
…pleased with today’s confirmation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,” said Chairman Conaway. “For too long, farmers and ranchers have suffered from unnecessary, burdensome regulations as a result of EPA overreach….
Ag Groups Respond to Pruitt Confirmation
…Senate confirmed the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the new EPA Administrator. Pruitt was sworn in soon after that 52 to 46 confirmation vote. While he lost…
EPA Defends RFS Implementation
A group of plaintiffs recently filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging how the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) has recently been implemented. Attorneys for the EPA filed a…
Seneca Valley Virus Disease Reports Increasing
…aldehydes, and oxidizing disinfectants including sodium hypochlorite. Below are EPA-approved disinfectants USDA lists effective for FMD on page 30 http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/emergency_management/downloads/fad_epa_disinfect ants.pdf. Be sure to follow labeled directions. Epidemiology The survival…
EPA Confirmation Vote on the Horizon
Pruitt Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, expects the Full Senate to consider Scott Pruitt’s nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
Congressman Gaetz; Why Abolish the EPA
…EPA Gaetz served in the Florida Legislature for six years, where, he says, he saw the failures of the EPA firsthand. He witnessed the EPA make environmental projects more costly…