Owners of meat and poultry facilities around the country tell the Environmental Protection Agency that they will close their businesses before complying with a nearly year-old regulation requiring them to clean up their wastewater discharges.
The EPA proposed the regulation in December 2023, which would apply to wastewater discharges from
Continue Reading Will egg, poultry, meat prices rise again because of new wastewater regulations?
Perchlorate (CLO4−) is a non-volatile anion with a molecular weight of 99.45. It consists of one chlorine atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms.
Consumer Reports is out with tests confirming that the chemical perchlorate is widespread in food. The consumer group says regulators have known of these risks for decades
Continue Reading New Consumer Reports study examines perchlorate levels in food and drinking water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an “existing stocks order,” allowing farmers planning to use dicamba products for 2024 to receive and use them during the upcoming growing season.
EPA has ruled that farmers can accept “existing stocks” — previously registered pesticide products currently in the United States that
Continue Reading Existing stocks of herbicide dicamba may be used during the upcoming crop season
A federal court has revoked approval of the weed-killing pesticide dicamba. The ruling means farmers may not have access to the popular pesticide during the upcoming growing season.
The drift-prone pesticide has damaged millions of acres of crops and wild plants every year since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first
Continue Reading Federal court puts an end to agriculture use of the pesticide dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on the insecticide chlorpyrifos was arbitrary and capricious, mainly because the two-year-old decision to ban it was rushed.
Consequently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has vacated the 2021 ban and ordered EPA to think about how it regulates one of the
Continue Reading EPA rush job means the pesticide chlorpyrifos will be back in the fields in 2024
Just a month ago, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
In response, the San Francisco-based Center for Food Safety and 12 other groups sued the EPA for its denial to regulate factory
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Revisions to the Clean Water Act submitted in 2017 for more effective regulations of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) were denied this week by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA denied the 2017 petition submitted by Food & Water Watch and dozens of co-petitioners, including the Center for Food Safety.
Continue Reading EPA denies water quality petition for CAFOs
The Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v EPA, announced on May 25, 2023, was unanimous in that the EPA’s wetlands regulatory jurisdiction is limited to wetlands with a continuous surface connection to the waters of the United States. And the Supreme Court decided that the EPA’s wetlands regulatory jurisdiction is
Continue Reading Sackett ruling should erase the existing Waters of the U. S. rule, cattlemen say
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and Matthew M. Graves of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington D.C. are all being sued over some popular herbicides.
The Center for Food Safety, the Pesticide Action Network North America, and Nacional De Campesinas have sued the
Continue Reading EPA sued over herbicide approvals
A decision earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the use of the pesticide chlormequat has brought a strong rebuke from the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
The nonprofit EWG, a non-governmental organization, said EPA’s decision allows the use of “a highly toxic agricultural chemical for
Continue Reading Preliminary decision to allow pesticide chlormequat use pits EPA against EWG