…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…
Water Use/Climate Research Fellowships for CA Students
…become the next generation of environmental professionals who can make significant impacts in environmental science and beyond. Learn more about these fellows: https://www.epa.gov/research-fellowships/star-graduate-and-gro-undergraduate-fellowship-recipient-list#star Learn more about EPA’s fellowship opportunities: www.epa.gov/research-fellowships…
Breaking Down Belt Pesticide Ban
Dealing with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pesticide ban when you still have existing stocks of the product. An appeals court has upheld the EPA’s ban on flubendiamide, which is…
Meeting Emissions Goals
…Since EPA and NHTSA announced the second round of standards for commercial trucks, engines and trailers in 2015, ATA has been evaluating their potential impacts on the trucking industry and…
Cancelling Atrazine Would Cost Farmers $2.5 Billion
…and the long-term sustainability of U.S. agriculture depend on it.” Click HERE to read Zimmerman’s full testimony. Farmers are encouraged to submit comments to the EPA at www.ncga.com/atz. EPA is…