National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

It has been informally referred to as the “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ,” or “OBBBA.” Specifically, the instructions direct the committee to amend current budget-related laws to achieve the goals of the budget resolution. This resolution will include reconciliation instructions to one or more Congressional committees.

2013

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. 3, Issue 11, from June 12, 2025.

Endangered Species Act

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 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. 3, Issue 12, from June 26, 2025.

Endangered Species Act

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 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? Share: Recent Posts Who Gets to Say?

2013

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 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 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. Farmland July 11 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S. Farmland July 11 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S.

2013

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

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

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

CFIUS) , Foreign Ownership , Land Ownership , NALC Staff , United States Department of Agriculture by NALC staff On June 23, 2025, the House passed the Agricultural Risk Review Act ( H.R. Background Currently, no federal law exists that restricts foreign persons from acquiring or holding U.S. agriculture, particularly in farmland.

2013

Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 requires federal agencies to adjust.

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Law

MARCH 13, 2023

jaegeriana ) as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is not warranted. In September 2015, WildEarth Guardians submitted a petition to list the Joshua trees as threatened and, if applicable, designate critical habitat for the species.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 1, 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? Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from June 2025. Agency Deference in a Post-Chevron World: Auer v.

Endangered Species Act

Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Gutierrez admitted to acting as the middleman between several Mexico-based suppliers and US-based customers and was part of one of the most successful cross-border schemes to illegally trade wildlife in the United States. Between 2015 and 2020, Gutierrez helped illegally move more than $3.5 and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).[[N:16

Endangered Species Act

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

Government

Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The management of natural lakes is controlled by state agencies acting pursuant to state law. If a dam is built with a state-funded appropriation, the lake behind the dam will be managed according to the state law that created the dam’s construction. Environmentalists and area Tribes cheered the result.

Endangered Species Act

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Constitution, the legislature adopts the laws under which state agencies operate, but responsibility for implementing those laws rests with executive branch agencies like DEQ. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C. See: House Bill 600, Sec. 9) STORMWATER. Amends G.S.

2023

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

2017

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A threatened species is one that is “likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.”

2016

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 19, 2023

Less than a week before the effective date of the uplisting of the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. The northern long-eared bat was listed as threatened in 2015. Those tools which could have been useful as far back as 2015, were due in early March.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In the 1980s and ‘90s, three salmon and suckerfish species that call the Klamath Basin home were listed under the Endangered Species Act, a move that required USBR to limit surface water for farming during droughts to protect the fishes’ habitats. It’s a regulatory gap that has ramifications for the entire region.

2001

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. Decision at 101-102.) See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

A dentist from the United States, Dr. Walter Palmer, paid to go on a trophy hunt in July, 2015. the CECIL Act. which includes an amendment to the Endangered Species Act and a government-funded study on the pros and cons of trophy hunting. Candidate Species. Ed Hetherington Photography. shot and killed Cecil.

Endangered Species Act

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

14-40128, 2015 U.S. 4, 2015). However, the actus reus must still be proven; in other words, the defendant must still voluntarily commit the physical act of the crime in order to be liable. According to the Court of Appeals, the criminal act here is to “take”, which based on its common law definition (i.e., “to

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

What are the most important Supreme Court decisions in environmental law? This is the case that put teeth into the Endangered Species Act. Although the ruling might have been viewed as limited to the particular statute in question (a workplace safety law), it was interpreted as applying across the board.

Law

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Jewell , No.

2019

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First Circuit Certified State Law Preemption Questions in Case Challenging Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading at Harbor. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

2020

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species. The post Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species appeared first on Climate Law Blog. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

2018

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Venable law firm, in “Justice Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test from Rapanos , the courts concluded that the wetlands on the Sacketts’ property have a significant nexus to a nearby lake and are therefore waters of the United States. At question is the ruling made over 15 years ago in Rapanos v. United States. .

2022

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 But, many legal experts say the legal tug of war over the foundational water law is likely to continue until the Supreme Court weighs in again. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

2021

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In general, California’s progressive environmental laws and policies since the 1980’s have been in tension with federal environmental policies under recent Republican presidential administrations, while in relative harmony with environmental policies undertaken by Democratic presidents. Clinton-Bush Jr.-Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump

Endangered Species Act

ESA

JANUARY 23, 2023

The agency first revised management plans to protect sage grouse habitat and avoid an Endangered Species Act listing for the bird in 2015 during the Obama administration. The Trump administration amended the plans in 2019. What went wrong? –

2023

ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Biden administration repeals definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists hope new Maryland law will reduce nutrient pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Funding for this program is from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Senate Committee advances NOAA nomination. Executive Branch.

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