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First hearing set for challenge to new WOTUS rule by major private landowners

By Dan Flynn on February 3, 2023

April 5 is the date of the first hearing for the many parties involved in a federal court challenge to a final rule posted this past December from EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers…

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The pressure put on EPA over ‘factory farms’

By Dan Flynn on July 21, 2022

A letter sent Tuesday to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan urges him to unleash EPA’s powers on so-called “factory farms.” The letter is signed by 218 known and unknown groups.

The many groups want…

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A food and agriculture theme emerging for next Supreme Court session

By Dan Flynn on March 30, 2022

Beginning next October, the Supreme Court session will have a food and agriculture theme going for it. The high court has already agreed to hear two blockbuster cases involving the Clean Water Act and California’s …
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A rare second appearance before Supreme Court in Clean Water Act case

By Dan Flynn on January 31, 2022

Rare as it is to get a case once  before the U.S. Supreme Court, getting a return trip to the high court is  almost unheard of, but  that’s what Chantell and Mike Sackett of Priest

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Secretary of Agriculture choice not as difficult as farm policy

By Dan Flynn on January 6, 2017

When the bitter cold began spreading over rural America last month, the parlor guessing game around many a wood stove was guessing who President-elect Donald J. Trump would name as secretary of agriculture. But the…
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Farmers and ranchers get their privacy back

By Dan Flynn on September 27, 2016

Privacy was the winner in a Court of Appeals case a few days ago in the 8th U.S. Circuit with a unanimous ruling against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. intersection of public private illustrationA three-judge panel ruled against EPA’s…
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Spilled Milk, A Threat?

By Laurel Curran on August 2, 2010

Is milk as dangerous as oil? Many would tell you not to cry over spilled milk, but if you are a dairy farmer you may have reason to shed a few tears. Dairy farmers may become subject to…

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JBS to Pay $2 Million in PA Water Pollution Case

By Helena Bottemiller on June 21, 2010

JBS USA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement last week over one of the company’s plants’ alleged failure to comply with the Clean Water Act and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, which…

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Settlement in CAFO Clean Water Act Case

By Helena Bottemiller on May 28, 2010

Environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement yesterday requiring the agency to propose a rule on greater information gathering on factory farms, otherwise known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The…

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AgriBeef Pays for Clean Water Act Violations

By Zach Mallove on May 10, 2010

Washington Beef, a slaughterhouse in central Washington, agreed last week to pay $750,000 in civil penalties for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act between 2003 and 2009. In addition to the monetary penalty, Washington Beef…

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