National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. Under that law, conservation programs received around $18 billion in federal funding. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

2013

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

Well was drilled in 2011. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- City & State PA Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Must Energize Efforts To Regulate Its Oil And Gas Industry - By By Rep. It is classified as abandoned. Violation continued. Request response by June 5.

2025

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

Building on States’ due diligence obligations under international environmental law, the DRC underscored the incompatibility of military activities and armed conflicts with the objectives of mitigating GHG emissions that States have set (para. Hence, it is “due in times of peace and in times of war” (para.

Paris Agreement

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Specifically, the instructions direct the committee to amend current budget-related laws to achieve the goals of the budget resolution. As the Congressional Research Service states , it “reconcile[s] current law with the fiscal objectives of the budget resolution.”

2013

National Law Center

JULY 11, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 11 Jul NALC news release: NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S.

2013

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

119-21 ) into law. Key Notes For the closest observers of federal food and agriculture policy, there are two aspects of the bill that NSAC has been closely tracking: a provision known as the “suspension of permanent law” and the resultant budget sequestration required following the enactment of OBBB.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

There is good news though for small business owners – almost every state in the country has passed laws or regulations allowing entrepreneurs in similar situations to produce and sell certain food products made in private homes with very little or no regulation or oversight. What Are Cottage Foods? Stat § 587.693.

Law

National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 12 Jun The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

While the FDA does conduct routine inspections to ensure compliance with laws, it also utilizes inspections to follow up on specific instances such as a foodborne illness outbreak. Further, the FDA may conduct inspections on its own, it also has a program for contracting with state and territorial government regulatory agencies.

2013

National Law Center

JUNE 26, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 26 Jun The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 24, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 24 Jun Who Gets to Say?

2013

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

While numerous other states had previously passed similar farm animal confinement laws affecting sows and calves, this was the first state to also include laying hens. The Court ruled that the California law was constitutional and allowed it to go into effect. Ross , a case that made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Law

National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 2025

Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from July 2025. 3, Issue 14 One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Resource Roundup Administrative Law Ag & Food Law Update Agencies Agricultural Marketing Service Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Bureau of Land Management Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.

2013

National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 04 Jun NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S.

Law

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

Further, under current law, farm operations with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) above $900,000 are not eligible for subsidies. Under current law, subsidies for administrative and operative (A&O) expenses to AIPs already amount to almost $4 billion annually and sometimes surpass annual payments to farmers.

Conservation

National Law Center

JUNE 17, 2025

3, Issue 11 Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. Share: Recent Posts FDA Updates: June 2025 The Feed: Vol.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

331 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations 2025 Abandoned Conventional Wells: So far in 2025, DEP issued or continued 331 violations to 74 conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells- [3D Resources LLC ; Amer Natural Resources LLC; WB Anderson; Apex Energy (PA), LLC; Apollo Resources LLC; ARG Resources Inc.;

2025

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

Background Currently, no federal law exists that restricts foreign persons from acquiring or holding U.S. 1713 has passed the House, it must still pass the Senate and be signed by the President before becoming law. For more NALC resources on foreign ownership of ag land, click here. agriculture, particularly in farmland.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Prior to this measure, Texas law did not contain any restriction on foreign ownership of land. Texas is one of nine states to enact or amend a foreign ownership law during the 2025 legislative session and now becomes the twenty-eighth state to adopt legislation prohibiting certain foreign investments in land.

Law

Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. Biotechnology Law.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. Click Here for a copy of the Plan. 27 Released 1.1

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

Waste

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Cruden , Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Department of Justice.”

Law

Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

But under current law, Michigan regulators have little ability to force local communities to engage in such partnerships. That’s where it becomes important to structure the rates, so that low-income people are not getting slammed,” said Erik Olson, senior strategic director with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

2022

Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. The case is pending a decision. Peru : Alvarez et al v.

Deforestation

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from June 2025. Blog Posts New Addition to Foreign Ownership Law Trend: West Virginia Enacts Restriction on Foreign-Controlled Entities Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional FDA Updates: June 2025 Who Gets to Say?

Endangered Species Act

The Energy Law

JANUARY 20, 2021

In Yamaha , the Court held that courts of appeals could exercise jurisdiction over any question that is included within an interlocutory order, regardless of whether the district court identified that portion of the order as a controlling question of law.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Natural gas companies must also sign submerged land lease agreements with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for using stream and river beds between the high water marks of those bodies of water for pipeline crossings and water withdrawal points because the submerged land is owned by the Commonwealth.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennsylvania-based natural gas producer is building a water withdrawal point on the stream and laying a 20-inch pipeline across it to connect up to 80 fracked gas wells that will be developed on mountaintops on opposite sides of the stream in Loyalsock State Forest. By law, its water quality must be “maintained and protected.”

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. in the fertile crescent.

Climate Change

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

BSEE collected civil penalties in 22 cases in 2009, 26 cases in 2010, 30 cases in 2011, 31 cases in 2012, 42 cases in 2013, 53 cases in 2014, and 42 cases in 2015. The number of civil penalty cases has risen gradually since 2009, with a sharp increase over 2013-2015. The civil penalty dollar amount has also grown significantly. 7 (2016). [1]

2009

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. earthquake occurred off the Japanese coast on March 11, 2011. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

Nuclear Power

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 4, 2018

El Paso E & P Co. , the plaintiff-lessor brought a declaratory judgment action against the defendant-lessee seeking a determination that a 60-year-old, all-depths lease did not include rights to explore the Haynesville shale. Alyce Gaines Johnson Special Trust v. El Paso E & P Co. , 2d 640, 641-43 (W.D.

2018

The Energy Law

JANUARY 20, 2021

In Yamaha , the Court held that courts of appeals could exercise jurisdiction over any question that is included within an interlocutory order, regardless of whether the district court identified that portion of the order as a controlling question of law.

Climate Change

The Energy Law

APRIL 6, 2017

At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938.

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The origin of NTL 2009-G04 and SSRAs dates to 2008, when, in response to a request from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) and under the authority of 30 C.F.R. Through MMP, and pursuant to the authority granted by 43 U.S.C. that is funded in whole or in part by or authorized by the Federal Government.”

2009