Last week, the House passed the PERMIT Act, as an effort to streamline permitting under the Clean Water Act and ease the regulatory burden on agriculture.
Last week, Governor Tina Kotek announced the renewal of litigation against the federal government, saying the state is looking to protect vulnerable salmon runs.
On Thursday, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking the Biden Administration’s “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin” Memorandum. President Trump...
While a Waters of the United States Rule is in place, there may still be questions about the farm sector goes from here.
“We have a WOTUS rule in place. After a 2023 unanimous Supreme Court decision, the Biden administration had to kind of take their rule back to the drawing board and rewrite it to comply with this new WOTUS standard," said Mary-Thomas Hart chief counsel for the National Ca
The Interior Department may see more lawsuits after announcing it would no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to create an environmental impact statement for more than 3,200 oil and gas leases in seven states. The Biden administration started work on the review four days before President Trump took office in January...