by Brigit Rollins | Nov 9, 2023 | Ag & Food Law Update, Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Food Safety, Pesticides
On November 2, 2023, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Ass’n v. Regan, No. 22-1422 (8th Cir. 2023), reinstating the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops. In 2021, the Environmental Protection...
by Brigit Rollins | Oct 26, 2023 | Administrative Law, Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service
Update: On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court released its final decision in Loper Bright Enters. b. Raimondo, where it overturned Chevron deference, holding that “courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is...
by Brigit Rollins | Oct 25, 2023 | Animal Law, Animal Welfare, Elizabeth Rumley
Last October, the Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) considered a challenge to Proposition 12, a California law regulating the production and sale of many veal, egg, and pork products. The law had two main components. First, it prohibited the act of confining farm animals...
by Brigit Rollins | Oct 12, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
October 22, 2023, is the last day to submit comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework to Reduce Exposure of Federally Listed Endangered and Threatened Species and Designated Critical Habitats from the Use of...
by Brigit Rollins | Sep 28, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) must analyze how its revised water quality standards for cadmium will affect threatened and endangered species after a federal court determined that the agency had failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”)...
