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 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 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 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 Brigit Rollins | May 11, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Bureau of Land Management, Conservation Programs, Environmental Law, Land Use Regulation
On April 3, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that introduces a policy change in how the BLM will approach conservation activities on the land it manages. Specifically, the proposed rule would clarify that...
