A coalition has filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency challenging the Biden administration’s final “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule.
We should all be in favor of keeping our waterways clean and healthy, but the new WOTUS regulations are too ambiguous for farmers to be comfortable with.
Agriculture runs on water. But, on Friday, the President’s administration finalized a rule which defined “waters of the United States” or WOTUS, removing a 2020 Trump-era rule that many felt protected farmers and ranchers from egregious oversight.
Congress passed legislation today that will fund the government through September 2023 and allocate millions of dollars to support key agricultural initiatives.
After hundreds of public comments about whether the EPA should lower the CE-LOC for atrazine, farmers are waiting in anticipation of this decision.
Don’t be duped by headlines saying ‘factory farms’ are illegal in Ohio. It’s a poor attempt by the activist group Lake Erie Advocates to spin CAFO policy.
The EPA has announced its withdrawal from the review of all remaining portions of glyphosate ID, including the remanded ecological portion.
Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a petition for a partial rehearing to the Ninth Court of Appeals. The agency says they cannot comply with court orders from the June 17 ruling on the interim decision regarding glyphosate.
Some radical activist organizations have weaponized the Endangered Species Act against the EPA’s pesticide registrations — doing more damage than not in terms of the science.
When EPA announced its June 30 proposed rule on atrazine, farmers took immediate notice of EPA’s ultra-low level for atrazine. After examining the extensive documentation posted to the docket, the scenario has gone from bad to worse for grower.