…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….
New Congress Likely to Address Regulatory Reform
…influencing a rulemaking, citing the EPA “Ditch the Myth” campaign for the WOTUS rule as an example of agency abuse. The EPA came under fire for acting as a vocal…
American Farm Bureau Strongly Endorses Pruitt for EPA
…(R-Wyo.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.). In the letter, Duvall cited Pruitt’s contesting of the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. rule when he defended “the bipartisan view of Congress…
Food Prices Down as Biodiesel Production Grows
…is the only commercial-scale fuel produced across the U.S. to meet the EPA’s definition as an Advanced Biofuel – meaning the EPA has determined that biodiesel reduces greenhouse gas emissions…
Farm Bureau, NASDA Seek Delay of Unlawful EPA Rule
…rule, EPA has not addressed the problems. The petition also asserts that the EPA has failed to finalize and deliver to state lead agencies the enforcement guidance, educational material and…
EPA Removing Pesticide Ingredients from The Market
…will need to first demonstrate their safety to the EPA, either through studies or other information. The EPA will then decide whether or not to approve the request. EPA is…
CA Produce Shows Low or No Pesticide Residue
…California Department of Food and Agriculture. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) sets levels for the amount of pesticide residue that can be present on fruits and vegetables that…
Court Dismisses Mississippi River Basin Nutrient Standards Case
…nitrogen and phosphorous that could be in waters in the basin. Meat industry publication Meatingplace says the lawsuit piggybacked on a petition the environmental groups sent the EPA in 2008…
Panel Hears EPA Testimony on Glyphosate
…consensus is that based on the scientific data EPA has collected, glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer in humans. In addition to the EPA presentation, the panel also took public…