by Elizabeth | Feb 3, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Environmental Law, Water Law
Posted February 3, 2014 A group of New York landowners say they will sue the state if officials fail to release a timeline for making a decision on hydrofracking, according to Terry Weaver of Syracuse.com here. The demand letter is available here. Dan Fitzsimons,...
by Elizabeth | Jan 31, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Country of Origin Labeling, Food Labeling
Posted January 31, 2014 While most celebrated when the U.S. House passed a farm bill on Wednesday, some regional beef producers were disappointed when the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) provision was not excluded, according to an article by AgWeek available here....
by Elizabeth | Jan 31, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted January 31, 2014 The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) cited a Washington dairy and fined it $6,000 for a manure spill that affected nearby water in violation of the state’s Water Pollution Control Act, according to an AgWeb article available...
by Elizabeth | Jan 30, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food Safety
Posted January 30, 2014 A federal judge sentenced Eric and Ryan Jensen, owners of the cantaloupe farm linked to a deadly listeria outbreak in 2011, to five years probation, six months home detention, and $150,000 each in restitution fees to victims, according to a...
by Elizabeth | Jan 30, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Law
Posted January 30, 2014 The American Farm Bureau Federation recently asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to reverse a September 2013 ruling which upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) total maximum daily load for the Chesapeake...
