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The EPA has withdrawn a January 2024 proposed rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meat packing plants and slaughterhouses.

The EPA’s longstanding Meat and Poultry Effluent Guidelines and Standards will stand. Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that proposed changes to the regulation are unnecessary.

The Trump administration is expected to soon propose a new Clean Water Act rule that could eliminate federal protections for many wetlands across the U.S.

The EPA announced a decision to exempt some small refineries from blending biofuels in their supplies at levels required under the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Crop production tools are facing staffing and other challenges at the EPA and USDA, industry witnesses told the House Agriculture Committee this week.

WOUTS hearings have wrapped up, and the Trump Administration hopes to have a new rule in place by the end of the year.

Efforts to investigate the Northwest EPA office are now coming from D.C.  On Monday, central Washington’s Dan Newhouse sent a Letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin requesting an investigation into communications between anti-agriculture activist organizations and federal civil service employees.   "I am writing to...

The EPA has sent a proposed rule setting the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into their fuel starting next year. Reuters says the White House must sign off on the proposal from the EPA. The oil and biofuel lobbies have been waiting for this proposal since President Trump took office in January...

Idaho ranchers Lynn and Glenna Rasmussen are suing Simplot for allegedly causing a major toxic spill from a phosphate slurry pipeline, which they claim devastated their cattle operation.  The lawsuit alleges that agribusiness giant downplayed the volume and toxicity of the September 2023 spill in the Caribou National Forest, which the couple claims contaminated local water sources with hazardous s

Farmers are demanding transparency from the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice and a perceived campaign against Washington’s Ag industry.  Dillon Honcoop with Save Family Farming said public records indicate EPA has been pressuring Washington state agencies behind the scenes to assist their attacks on farms, specifically Lower Yakima Valley dairies.  Honcoop added...