Community Benefits Agreement Reached for Nebraska Pipeline Project
The Iowa Capital Dispatch's Paul Hammel reported last week that…
Iowa Senate Votes to Limit Pesticide Illness Lawsuits
Iowa Public Radio's Katarina Sostaric reported Wednesday that "Republicans in…
‘Product of USA’ label restricted to US-grown meat, poultry and eggs
Reuters’ Leah Douglas reported that “the administration of U.S. President…
Ag Groups Seek Dicamba Stocks Order
Progressive Farmer's Todd Neeley reported last week that "state and…
Summit Carbon Pipeline Adds More Plants
Reuters' Leah Douglas reported that "POET LLC, the world's largest…
Farmer Protests Spreading Across Europe
Just a few weeks after farmer protests against government regulations…
California’s Proposition 12 Takes Full Effect
California's Proposition 12 farm animal confinement law took full effect…
WOTUS Update, “EPA Revises Clean-Water Protections”
Washington Post writer Scott Dance reported in Saturday's paper that, "The Biden administration on Friday imposed a rule expanding the definition of waterways that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has…
EPA Seeks to Re-establish Pre-2015 Definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS)
DTN writer Todd Neeley reported this week that, "The Navigable Waters Protection Rule would be repealed and replaced with pre-2015 definitions of waters of the U.S. in a proposal released…
Biden Administration Seeks to Rewrite Trump Clean Water Rule
Washington Post writer Dino Grandoni reported this week that, "The Biden administration is set to toss out President Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back the number of streams, marshes and…
EPA Offers Clarity to Farmers in Light of Dicamba Court Ruling
Late last week, Wall Street Journal writer Jesse Newman reported that, "Bayer AG was dealt a setback in its efforts to provide farmers with new weapons against hard-to-kill weeds, after…
The Navigable Waters Protection Rule – A New Definition of WOTUS
A news release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday stated that, "Today, at an event at the National Association of Home Builders International Builders’ Show in Las…
Trump Administration Rolls Back “Waters of the U.S.” Rule
Last week, New York Times writers Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport reported that, "The Trump administration on [September 12] announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that…
New Waters of the U.S. Rule From EPA
Last month, on the same day that the Senate passed the Farm Bill Conference Report, and a day before the House took similar action, the Trump Administration released a new proposed…
EPA: Recent Perspectives on RFS and Agriculture
Recall that in December of 2016, agricultural policy observers expressed some measure of unease with President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oklahoma Attorney General Scott…
EPA Moves to Rescind “Waters of the U.S.” Rule
Coral Davenport reported yesterday at The New York Times Online that, "The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major legal step toward repealing a bitterly contested Obama-era regulation designed to…
Clean Water Act: Des Moines Water Works Lawsuit Revisited
Recall that back in January, a FarmPolicyNews update discussed an important legal case in Iowa that challenged the general exemption for agricultural storm water discharges under the Clean Water Act,…
Waters of the U.S. Rule: Trump Executive Order
Evan Halper reported in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times that, "President Trump stepped up his attack on federal environmental protections Tuesday, issuing an order directing his administration to begin the long…
Water Quality– Iowa Case Resolves One Issue, Clean Water Act Permitting Issue Remains Open
Nutrient-impacted water runoff from farm fields can have environmental consequences. A case filed by Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) involving financial damages from treatment of this water recently made its…
Trump Nominates Scott Pruitt to Head EPA
On December 8th, Washington Post writers Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis and Steven Mufson reported that, "President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and…