PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

A 1985 study released in 2010 by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources found high concentrations of barium in conventional oil and gas brines was the "likely the source of barium contents exceeding the drinking-water limits in some private wells and small municipal water supplies in western Pennsylvania." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobils refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 Im curious as to whether Goldsmith thought in 2015 that hed still be fighting this battle a decade later. On the morning of Feb. earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods.

2015

National Law Center

JULY 10, 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 10 Jul The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

The urgency of glyphosates suspected hazards increased dramatically in 2015 when the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a respected unit of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. In April, North Dakota became the first state to enact such a bill into law. Im sure about that.

Biotechnology

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As of November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection issued owners of conventional oil and gas wells 6,907 violations for violating state laws and regulations, exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in all of 2023. And, there are five+ weeks left in 2024. And these trends are not encouraging. Read more here. Read more here.

2023

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2015, Congress enacted FAST-41 to require federal agencies to more closely coordinate on EISs (and permitting more generally) for large projects in certain priority categories. Guest contributor Justin Pidot holds the Ashby Lohse Chair in Water & Natural Resources at the University of Arizona James E. Download as PDF

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2025

Reel Resources holds 40 permits. Shapiro: Lightning Plan Tax Credit Bill, Community Energy Pass PA House [PaEN] -- Penn State University To Host Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Original violations were issued March 5, 2025 for abandonment and for failing to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

2025

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

Jason Schwartz, legal director for the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School, said the statutory language was “pretty clear that you dont need pollutant-specific findings.” ” Jeff Holmstead, who served as EPA air chief during the George W.

Regulations

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

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

from restarting an offshore pipeline system that infamously ruptured and caused the massive Refugio oil spill in 2015. Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy published a blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzing the potential impacts of the law across a range of sectors from EVs to carbon capture.

Electricity

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

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. 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 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

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

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015. .

Regulations

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

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Riparian rights were inherited and adapted from British common law and are primarily used in rainy eastern states. By incentivizing the occupation of land, ownership by force, and exploitation of natural resources, the state and federal governments promoted the violent dispossession and genocide of Native Americans from the land.

Government

Vermont Law

APRIL 14, 2014

Recently, at Vermont Law School’s annual Solutions Conference, a panel discussion highlighted the need for a stronger indigenous voice in natural resource management. On Friday, March 28, Vermont Law School (VLS) held a panel discussion, revealing the need for a stronger indigenous voice in natural resource policy.

Natural Resources

The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

State of Louisiana through the Department of Natural Resources , 22-0625 (La. In 2006, a group of landowners filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Louisiana through the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) concerning the ownership of riverbanks in the Catahoula Basin. In Crooks v. 1/1/23), So.

Natural Resources

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Tammany zoning ordinance prohibiting hydraulic fracturing was preempted under State law. [4] Welsh , 2015-1152 (La. Tammany’s attempt to ban hydraulic fracturing eight years ago, which was ultimately struck down by Louisiana courts, finding that the St. Ordinance No. Tammany Parish Government v. 3/9/16); 199 So.3d

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

Negrin is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law. Cindy Dunn Cindy Dunn has served in the position of Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources since the beginning of the Wolf Administration in 2015. Click Here for her bio. Click Here for his bio.

2015

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2022

2015-011-L ). Watch Merck testify in favor of Senate Bill 619 on September 30, 2020 before the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. PACD is dedicated to preserving and protecting our natural resources and believes that current PA law requiring all spills to be reported to DEP is safer for all of our county citizens.

Conservation

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

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2021

2015-011-L ). For any existing litigation, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources would be substituted for the private entity trying to claim the public easement under this legislation. Environmental, conservation, wildlife and many other groups have opposed this legislation. Read more here.

2015

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