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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers’ revisions to their March “waters of the U.S.” rule, which narrowed the scope of the rule based on the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision, were greeted with resignation and protest Tuesday.
In this opinion piece, Ted McKinney with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture discusses why the federal government should comply with the Supreme Court’s guidance in the Sackettdecision as it releases its updated WOTUS rule.
In a ritual that takes place every four years, presidential candidates have swooped into the Iowa State Fair to mingle with the throngs, and craft their pitches to the state's voters while occasionally addressing rural and agriculture issues that seldom get mentioned later in the campaign.
Farm groups are among the dozens of industry trade associations expressing concern that the Environmental Protection Agency will try to retain broad authority to regulate discharges into non-navigable waters despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett.
In this opinion piece, Northwest Missouri farmer Blake Hurst discusses the recent Supreme Court decisions and their impact on producers around the country.
The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act decision to limit the federal government’s jurisdiction over “adjacent” wetlands prompted warnings that millions of acres of wetlands could be at risk, but also generated cheers from farm groups that have fought the interpretation of the 50-year-old law for decades.
Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill today as congressional leaders and President Joe Biden look to nail down the votes to pass the agreement the White House reached with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend.
In a major victory for farm groups, the Supreme Court on Thursday significantly reduced the scope of the Clean Water Act as interpreted by the federal government, ruling that the law only regulates wetlands when they are “as a practical matter indistinguishable from waters of the United States.”
