clean water act

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to take the high court in a more conservative direction on a range of issues, including the Clean Water Act.

Pruitt met with of ag organizations united against the WOTUS rule, about a proposal goes back to the basics of the rules of the original Clean Water Act.

G7 Summit ends and Canadian dairy farmer lobby group, says President Trump is looking to dump surplus subsidized U.S. dairy products on the Canadian market.

U.S. dairy organizations are urging Japan to respect current trade relationships as they review the European Union’s list of common food names during trade talks. On Capitol Hill, a news conference highlighted a high-speed internet service plan to all Americans. EPA being urged to permanently abolish the embattled 2015 Waters of the United States rule.

**Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt met with farmers, elected officials, and ag industry leaders last week to hear feedback on re-writing the Waters of the U.S. Rule under the Clean Water Act. The controversial rule has been put on hold by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals while strong opposition from farm organizations, home builders and others who consider it to be an ove

**President Trump is nominating Gregg Doud, president of the Commodity Markets Council and a farm policy veteran, to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator under the U.S. Trade Representative.   Doud was a senior aide to the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2011 to 2013 and assisted in drafting what would become the 2014 farm bill. The...

**The EPA will write a new definition of “waters of the U.S.” rules that is less expansive than the Obama administration’s rule that the agency is withdrawing. That was the word from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday in an exclusive Agri-Pulse interview...

**For the first time, new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency spoke with a few dozen EPA employees and the media this week after his swearing in. Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt outlined general principles, but offered few specifics...

Court fights over the scope of the government’s authority under the Clean Water Act are likely to increase during the Trump administration. That’s according to Neal McAliley, with the Carlton Fields law firm in Miami, who thinks there will be an increasing focus on the courts...

SEATTLE (AP) — A tentative agreement has been reached between BNSF Railway and seven environmental groups that sued alleging coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways in Washington state. Under the agreement announced Tuesday by both sides, BNSF agreed to conduct a two-year study on physical covers for coal and petroleum coke railcars...