7 results for 'cat:"Agriculture" AND cat:"Environment"'.
[Consolidated.] J. Franson holds that an agricultural conservation easement qualifies as partial compensatory mitigation of an oil and gas project's conversion of agricultural land. Agricultural conservation easements satisfy Environmental Quality Act regulations that require the provision of substitute resources for compensatory mitigation, even if the result is a net loss of agricultural land. On remand, the trial court must order Kern County to prepare a revised environmental impact report that allows agricultural conservation easements to serve as partial mitigation of agricultural land for oil and gas activities. Reversed in part.
Court: California Courts Of Appeal, Judge: Franson, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: F084763, Categories: agriculture, Energy, environment
J. Bress grants in part and denies in part a petition for review of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended pesticide registration of streptomycin sulfate, which is used to fight citrus diseases. Environmental groups argued that there was insufficient evidence to support the EPA’s determination that registration of streptomycin for use on citrus would not cause “unreasonable adverse effects on the environment,” as required by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Substantial evidence existed to support the EPA assessment concerning risks which could lead to antibiotic resistance. However, the EPA’s assessment of the risk that the registration poses to pollinators, such as bees, was incomplete.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Bress, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 21-70719, Categories: agriculture, environment
[Consolidated]. J. Stras finds a lower court improperly granted the Environmental Protection Agency's motion to place a ban on the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops. The protection agency argued that the use of chlorpyrifos as insecticides are harmful to humans. However, the EPA may have made a hasty decision under the pressure of the environmental groups and a narrow deadline, forcing it to act quickly to decide the "winners and losers." Reversed.
Court: 8th Circuit, Judge: Stras, Filed On: November 2, 2023, Case #: 22-1422, Categories: agriculture, environment, Agency
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J. Miller finds that the district court properly dismissed a matter brought by three environmental organizations against the United States Forest Service, challenging livestock grazing decisions in the Colville National Forest in Eastern Washington. The organizations claim that grazing decisions would lead to an increase in the number of wolf attacks on livestock, which in turn would cause the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill more wolves. The matter was properly dismissed because the organizations did not state an injury in fact. Affirmed.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Miller , Filed On: June 14, 2023, Case #: 21-35936, Categories: agriculture, environment
J. Stegall finds a lower court improperly ruled in favor of an environmental group concerning the expansion of a swine facility. The environmental group argued that the State's department of health and environment wrongfully granted the swine farm's application for permits to expand the facility, even though the two facilities were not legally "separate facilities." However, the environmental department's claims are rendered moot after the swine facility removed a shared property line and obtained new permits to run both facilities. Reversed.
Court: Kansas Supreme Court, Judge: Stegall, Filed On: June 2, 2023, Case #: 123,023, Categories: agriculture, environment, Property