Items Tagged with 'Food & Water Watch'

The hog industry says the U.S. pork supply is safe following detection of H5N1 in a pig from a backyard farm in Oregon, but concerns remain about possible mutations in the virus.

EPA’s denial of a petition last year seeking new regulations for concentrated animal feeding operations was reasonable, the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals has found.

Commenters on USDA’s latest attempt to promote fair and competitive livestock and poultry markets expressed widely divergent views on the proposal’s legality and provided a preview of the litigation to come if the rule is finalized.

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees are working together to lay the groundwork for passing a farm bill before the end of the year. That’s according to a memo to House Ag Committee Democrats from the panel’s ranking member, David Scott of Georgia.

Iowa has approved Summit Carbon Solutions’ main liquid carbon dioxide pipeline through the state, a significant step forward for the carbon capture and sequestration project.

The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a petition calling for stricter regulation of animal feeding operations, deciding instead to establish a federal advisory committee to examine the matter.

The Iowa Senate has killed a House-passed bill written to block carbon capture pipelines by deciding not to consider it before today’s legislative deadline.

The Iowa House has overwhelmingly passed a bill making it more difficult for companies that want to build pipelines for carbon sequestration to obtain the land necessary to do so.

The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a study on the water quality impacts of large animal feeding operations before deciding whether to tighten rules for them.