by Brigit Rollins | Nov 11, 2022 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service
In 2019 and 2020, the Trump Administration adopted multiple regulations impacting how the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) is carried out. The new rules addressed several key aspects of the ESA, and were regarded as controversial. Since the Biden Administration took...
by Brigit Rollins | Oct 27, 2022 | Administrative Law, Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Feeding Operations, Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Water Law
In October 2022, a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit asking the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to formally respond to a petition the groups submitted to the Agency in 2017. The petition asks EPA to draft stronger rules for regulation...
by Brigit Rollins | Oct 13, 2022 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
The past several weeks have seen developments in various on-going legal disputes over pesticides. Recent actions concerning glyphosate, dicamba, and pesticide-treated seeds took place over the course of September. Each action may lead to further challenges down the...
by Brigit Rollins | Sep 29, 2022 | Brigit Rollins, Conservation Programs, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture
First authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (“RCPP”) is a voluntary conservation program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”). Through the RCPP, NRCS...
by Brigit Rollins | Sep 15, 2022 | Brigit Rollins, Conservation Programs, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Urban Encroachment
Under the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (“ACEP”), private landowners, land trusts, and other entities work with the United State Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (“NRCS”) to both preserve working farms, and protect...
