…or CAFOs. The group requested in 2009 that EPA begin rulemaking under the Clean Air Act to regulate air emissions from CAFOs. The U.S. District Court for the District of…
Clean Water Act: Report Details how Agencies Expand Authority
…the Senate committee, James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the EPA and Corps have been “eroding traditional exemptions” contained in the Clean Water Act for normal farming activities. Several specific examples in…
Clinton in Favor of WOTUS, Trump Against
…also said she was pleased that EPA maintained in WOTUS the “long-standing exemptions for common farming practices.” Farm groups, however, tend to disagree and claim the EPA is ignoring the…
Farm Bureau: Senate Report Shows Federal Clean Water Act Overreach
…years now: the new ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule takes the EPA’s and Corps’ longstanding regulatory overreach and gives it a new name. The agencies have persistently and unlawfully stretched…
EPA Awards $4.8 M to Research Water Quality Benefits
…healthy community. Many communities face challenging decisions about investing in the protection of water resources,” said Thomas Burke, EPA science advisory and deputy assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Research…
EPA Says Glyphosate Likely Not Carcinogenic
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited decision Friday on whether glyphosate is carcinogenic, as a World Health Organization division claims. The EPA announced the agency believes glyphosate…
WRDA Bill Clears Senate with On-Farm Storage Exemption
…to prepare spill-control plans. Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer inserted the storage tank provision in the bill to give farmers some relief from the EPA’s Spill, Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures requirements….
EPA Glyphosate Assessment Moved to Next Spring
The new target date for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) assessment on glyphosate is now sometime in the spring of 2017, which coincides with the arrival of a new presidential…
Pork Producers Can Challenge Information Release
…central database, which EPA did three years ago and then gave that information to environmental groups through Freedom of Information Act requests. The panel said the EPA’s extensive data collection…
EPA Violated Personal Privacy of Farmers and Ranchers
…The ruling concerns the EPA’s decision in 2013 to release to three environmental groups a large number of spreadsheets containing personal information of farmers and ranchers that raise poultry and…
NPPC, Farm Bureau Win FOIA Case Against EPA
…fact traceable to the EPA’s action and redressable by judicial relief.” Weber “EPA’s release of sensitive, private and personal materials on more than 100,000 farmers and ranchers was an outrageous…
EPA Decision on Dicamba Expected Late in 2016
…nearby crops that aren’t resistant to the weed killer. In April, the EPA proposed allowing the use of the herbicide designed to be used with the Monsanto Xtend crops, but…
Ag Groups Question Venue for ‘WOTUS’ Appeal
Organizations looking to overturn the EPA’s and the Army Corps’ Waters of the U.S. Rule (WOTUS) want the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether or not the Sixth Circuit Court…
Atrazine Important for Conservation Farming
…EPA released its draft ecological risk assessment as part of the re-registration process for atrazine and if its recommendations stand, farmers will basically lose the use of the herbicide Tillage…