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On February 28, 2024, the Corte Oreilles Lakes Association together with the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa filed a lawsuit against two cranberry farms for alleged Clean Water Act (“CWA”) violations. According to the plaintiffs, the defendant’s farms had been making unpermitted discharges of phosphorous into a waterbody protected by the

On February 6, 2024, a federal court in Arizona issued a ruling directing the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to vacate the 2020 registrations allowing over-the-top use of three dicamba-based pesticides, XtendiMax, Engenia, and Tavium. This marks the second time a court has ordered EPA to vacate a dicamba registration, following a ruling from the Ninth

In late January, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it was seeking public comment on its proposal to revise technology-based effluent limitations guidelines and standards for meat and poultry products facilities that discharge wastewater into waters of the United States. The proposal would strengthen existing requirements for nitrogen pollution and introduce restrictions on phosphorous

One June 22, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released a draft white paper for its Vulnerable Species Pilot Project (“VSPP”), a central component of the agency’s new policy approach to meeting its Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) responsibilities when carrying out actions under the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act (“FIFRA”). While the draft white

On November 2, 2023, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Ass’n v. Regan, No. 22-1422 (8th Cir. 2023), reinstating the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops. In 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) revoked the food tolerances for chlorpyrifos after a decision from the

October 22, 2023, is the last day to submit comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework to Reduce Exposure of Federally Listed Endangered and Threatened Species and Designated Critical Habitats from the Use of Conventional Agricultural Herbicides (“Draft Herbicide Strategy”). The document is one component of EPA’s new policy on how