…General, Pruitt was engaged in lawsuits against the EPA, including one over the EPA Waters of the U.S. rule. While the committee’s Republicans ridiculed their counterparts, Republicans held a similar…
6 Things to Know About EPA Review of Pyrethroids
…2017. The EPA answered questions regarding the comment period and more information on the review process: Why did the EPA decide to evaluate pyrethroids? <nspb;> EPA is evaluating pyrethroids as…
Former Trump Transition Leader Warns of Two-thirds Cut of EPA Staff
…EPA transition team and has suggested cutting the EPA workforce to 5,000, about a two-thirds reduction over the next four years. He says the EPA’s $8.1 billion budget would also…
Dicamba Herbicide Lawsuit Cites Endangered Species Concerns
…grounds to rescind the approval, which EPA gave on November 9, 2016. The Petition for review accuses the EPA of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in issuing…
2016 Biodiesel Market Skunks Previous Records
…members are losing more than a third of the market to foreign imports,” said National Biodiesel Board CEO, Donnell Rehagen. According to numbers released by the EPA Thursday, the 2.9…
Trump Freezes EPA Grants and Communications
The Donald Trump administration has ordered a freeze on grants and contracts from the Environmental Protection Agency and ordered EPA staff to halt external communications. A memo to EPA staff…
Trump EPA Plan Calls for Eliminating WOTUS
New President Donald Trump’s plan for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) includes eliminating the Waters of the U.S. rule. The Trump administration calls WOTUS a burdensome regulation that is “harmful…
The Western View: EPA, You Got to be Kidding!
…EPA Gold King Mine Well, guess what. The EPA is taking responsibility for that spill, but in a brilliant piece of bureaucratic doublespeak, they aren’t going to pay for the…
NPPC Endorses Pruitt For EPA Administrator
…Pruitt for administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt, who as Oklahoma’s top law enforcement officer sued the EPA over its controversial Waters of the United States rule and…
Cattlemen Call on Senate to Confirm Pruitt as EPA Administrator
…with its Distinguished Service Award for his dedication to those principles.” Decisions made by EPA impact America’s hundreds of thousands of cattle producers every day. NCBA’s top priority at EPA…
Senate Resolution Would Roll Back WOTUS
…authority of both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers authority to regulate water, which is already written into the Clean Water Act. Almost 100 percent of the American…
Evaluating Chemicals that May Pose Risk
…on EPA’s Inventory, many of these are no longer actively produced. The rule will require manufacturers, including importers, to notify EPA and the public on the number of chemicals still…
Supreme Court Agrees to take EPA WOTUS Rule
Scott Yager, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association environmental counsel, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant the cert petition for the industry coalition lawsuit…
Confirmation Hearing Scheduled for Trump’s EPA Administrator Nominee
…“strongly endorses” the nomination of Pruitt as EPA administrator. Just last week, AFBF President Zippy Duvall called Pruitt an “ideal nominee.” From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….