by Brigit Rollins | Aug 26, 2025 | Animal Feeding Operations, Brigit Rollins, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Environmental Protection Agency
On August 7, 2025, a federal court in the District of Columbia issued an order to resolve a lawsuit originally filed by environmental groups in 2018 to challenge a final rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) that same year which clarified that air...
by Brigit Rollins | Aug 12, 2025 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides, The Deal with Dicamba
In late July 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it had opened a public comment period on its proposal to register three dicamba-based pesticide products for use directly on dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton seeds. No dicamba pesticide...
by Brigit Rollins | Jul 29, 2025 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, National Environmental Policy Act
In late May 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Seven Cty. Infrastructure Coal. v. Eagle Cty., No. 23-975 (2025), a lawsuit concerning the scope of review under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). In its decision, the Court...
by Brigit Rollins | Jul 24, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Brigit Rollins, Carbon, Conservation Programs, Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Farm Bill, Farm Labor, Land Use Regulation, Taxation, Taxation, Water Law
On July 4, 2025, President Trump formally signed the multi-billion-dollar reconciliation bill titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) into law. The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that...
by Brigit Rollins | Jun 24, 2025 | Administrative Law, Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Labor, Research Fellows
Kelli Ludlum, Research Fellow Brigit Rollins, Staff Attorney The United States Supreme Court last year decided Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, a case that redefined judicial review in administrative law. On June 28, 2024, the Court overturned the forty-year-old...
