GOP Platform Critical of GMO Labeling, ‘Gipsa” Rule, ‘;Wotus” Regulation, EPA The Republican Party platform cobbled together and unveiled at the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland touches on a number…
EPA Proposes Protection from Selenium
…information, including a prepublication of the rule, please visit EPA’s website at: https://epa.gov/wqs-tech/water-quality-standards-establishment-revised-numeric-criteria-selenium-san-francisco-bay. Image Credit: The Vallejo Delta in the San Francisco bay area. Copyright: obelix / 123RF Stock Photo…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…information about restricted use pesticides, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety/restricted-use-products-rup-report For more information about pesticides and worker safety, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety For more information on FIFRA and its enforcement, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act…
Agri View: Troubled Ocean Waters
…provided for in the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. 33 U.S.C. §1402. Additional information on the Title I regulatory program is available on EPA’s ocean dumping…
NACD Responds to Approval of EPA Spending Bills
House, Senate panels approve Forest Service, EPA spending bills; NACD responds The National Association of Conservation Districts is pleased with the Fiscal Year 2017 funding levels the House and Senate…
Western View: Use a Plow, Go to Jail?
…was on an acreage that had been heavily farmed for years. There was nothing special about that dry mud puddle, or if you prefer, vernal pool. Don’t tell the EPA…
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Calls EPA Atrazine Accusations False
…showing that EPA’s predictions have actually occurred, despite atrazine’s widespread international use for more than 60 years. The center claims EPA’s unsupported accusations violate EPA’s own Model Quality Guidelines, which require…
EPA Announces Award to Protect Northern California Watersheds
…practice for watershed protection and that can be replicated across the country. More information on the Healthy Watersheds Consortium Grant Program and grantees: https://www.epa.gov/hwp and http://www.usendowment.org/healthywatersheds.html Information about watersheds: https://www.epa.gov/hwp/healthy-watersheds-overview…
Two Southern California Firms Honored
…we work and live,” said Alexis Strauss, EPA’s Acting Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “EPA congratulates Verdezyne and Newlight Technologies for creating sustainable solutions which spur innovation and economic…
Long Fight Ahead on EPA Atrazine Proposal
More controversy stemming from a disagreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and decades of research. The EPA’s draft risk assessment on atrazine says the herbicide is harmful to animals and…
Supreme Court: Farmers Can Challenge Wetlands Determinations
…and ranchers can have their day in court when the government tells them they cannot plow a field or improve a ditch without a federal permit.” Critics of the EPA…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
…environmental regulations that are largely determined by the EPA. Parrish cited numerous examples of EPA and Army Corps mismanagement: The Corps has made jurisdictional determinations and tracked farming activities based…
View from the Barnyard on the Farm Economy
…Nonsensical EPA regulations like those addressing Waters of the United States, or impending USDA rules interfering with the efficiency of livestock markets will have a disastrous effect on markets that…
Study Reaffirms GMO Safety
…current policy on new plant varieties is in theory a “product” based policy, but USDA and EPA determine which plants to regulate at least partially based on the process by…