by Brigit Rollins | Jul 20, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service
During the Trump administration, multiple environmental statutes were subject to regulatory changes, some of them for the first time in decades. While many of the changes were controversial, others were regarded as long overdue. The Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) was...
by Elizabeth | Jul 14, 2023 | Continuing Education
The National Agricultural Law Center would like to thank sponsors of the inaugural Western Agricultural & Environmental Law Conference. The conference was held on May 4-5, 2023 at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, NV, with a livestream option available....
by Elizabeth | Jul 12, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 13, from July 12, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Elizabeth | Jul 11, 2023 | Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown
Recently, a group of Chinese citizens living in Florida and Multi-Choice Realty, a Florida-based real estate brokerage firm, have filed a lawsuit (Shen v. Simpson, No. 4:23-cv-208 (N.D. Fla. 2023)) against the state of Florida alleging that the state’s new foreign...
by Brigit Rollins | Jul 6, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
In 2017, several environmental groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to close what the groups described as a “loophole” that allows crop seeds that had been coated with pesticides (referred to as “treated seeds”) to avoid regulation under the...
by Elizabeth | Jul 6, 2023 | Quarterly Newsletter
The National Agricultural Law Center compiles and publishes a quarterly newsletter highlighting recent and upcoming events and resources. The newsletter for the second quarter of 2023 is available here. To sign up for future newsletters, click...
by Ramie Parsons | Jun 29, 2023 | Monthly Round Up
June Round-Up As June has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in agricultural and food law to stakeholders across the country. Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from the end of...
by Ramie Parsons | Jun 29, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 12, from June 28, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Elizabeth | Jun 27, 2023 | Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, State Proposals on Restricting Foreign Ownership of Farmland
In the past two years or so, as discussed in the first article of this series, the issue of restricting foreign investments and ownership in privately held farmland emerged or reemerged in the majority of states. This reemerging interest in restricting foreign...
by Brigit Rollins | Jun 22, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pesticides
On June 6, 2023, a coalition of environmental and agricultural labor groups lead by the Center for Food Safety filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to challenge the agency’s registrations for the herbicides Enlist One and Enlist Duo...
by Ramie Parsons | Jun 15, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 11, from June 15, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Elizabeth | Jun 13, 2023 | Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown
Recently, a group of Chinese citizens living in Florida and a real estate brokerage firm—whose clients are primarily Chinese and Chinese American—have filed a lawsuit (Shen v. Simpson, No. 4:23-cv-208 (N.D. Fla. 2023)) against the state of Florida alleging that the...
by Elizabeth | Jun 6, 2023 | Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown
Recently, a group of Chinese citizens living in Florida and a real estate brokerage firm—whose clients are primarily Chinese and Chinese American—have filed a lawsuit (Shen v. Simpson, No. 4:23-cv-208 (N.D. Fla. 2023)) against the state of Florida alleging that the...
by Ramie Parsons | Jun 1, 2023 | Monthly Round Up
May Round-Up As May has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in agricultural and food law to stakeholders across the country. Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from the end of May....
by Brigit Rollins | May 30, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, WOTUS Update
On May 25, 2023, the United States Supreme Court released their highly-anticipated opinion in Sackett v. EPA, U.S. (2023), a lawsuit concerning the scope of wetlands jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). The decision comes months after the Environmental...
by Ramie Parsons | May 25, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 10, from May 25, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Brigit Rollins | May 25, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides, The Deal with Dicamba
On April 12, 2023, the plaintiffs in Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Envtl. Protection Agency, No. 4:20-cv-00555 (D. Ariz.), a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) December 2020 decision to register the pesticide dicamba for use...
by Elizabeth | May 16, 2023 | Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown
Ownership of U.S. land, specifically agricultural lands, by foreign persons or entities has been an issue that traces to the origins of the United States. In most states, foreign persons and entities have the same property rights as the citizens of those states. Other...
by Elizabeth | May 12, 2023 | Animal Law, Animal Welfare, Elizabeth Rumley
After considering a constitutional challenge to a California ballot initiative regulating space requirements for farm animals, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) ruled on May 11th in favor of the state of California, allowing the law to stand. The...
by Ramie Parsons | May 12, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 9, from May 12, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
