by Brigit Rollins | Jan 24, 2020 | Ag & Food Law Update, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Law, WOTUS Update
The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has released its much-anticipated replacement for the 2015 Waters of the United States rule (“2015 Rule”). The new rule, released on January 23, 2020, reduces the types of waterways that fall under the jurisdiction of the...
by Brigit Rollins | Jan 22, 2020 | Ag & Food Law Update, Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides, The Deal with Dicamba
UPDATE: On February 14, 2020 the jury in Bader Farms, Inc. v. Monsanto Co., No. 1:16-cv-299 (E.D. Mo. 2020) ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Bader Farms, and awarded $15 million dollars in damages. The following day, February 15, the jury awarded an additional $250...
by Brigit Rollins | Jan 16, 2020 | Ag & Food Law Update, Climate Change, Environmental Law, National Environmental Policy Act
In January, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) released a set of proposed regulations that would change how CEQ implements provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). CEQ has not made any significant changes to the NEPA regulations in...
by Brigit Rollins | Jan 13, 2020 | Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Law, Brigit Rollins, Packers and Stockyards Act
Today, USDA released a proposed rule governing competition in the livestock and poultry industries. This was the latest iteration of the rule, which originally stemmed from language in the 2008 Farm Bill ordering the Secretary of Agriculture to establish criteria to...
by Brigit Rollins | Jan 8, 2020 | Ag & Food Law Update, Water Law
A decades-long dispute between Florida and Georgia over each state’s water rights in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (“ACF River Basin”) is heading back to the United States Supreme Court where Florida is asking the justices to put a cap on Georgia’s...
