Latest News From EPA

Infuriating price increases are the topic of the day, and but like the 80’s, rising inflation is driven largely by energy and the price of oil. It's now less about the supply of oil, and more about refining capacity.

EPA hosted its fifth WOTUS roundtable last week with the Kansas Livestock Association, revealing murky waters in the WOTUS definition.

The White House is considering waiving U.S. gasoline environmental rules aimed at reducing summertime smog, hoping the waiver will combat rising pump prices, Reuters reported.

Earlier this week, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association policy team convened to summarize their efforts on The Hill in 2021.

The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are seeking comment on the pre-2015 WOTUS rule published in the Federal Register.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to find ways to ensure people are protected from extreme heat, including through work-related rules and other cooling efforts.

EPA announced it's creating a durable definition of WOTUS by reverting back to the pre-Obama era rule as a framework. EPA is encouraging farmers and ranchers to weigh in during a series of public meetings in August.

“I like to say you’re going to have to have a permit to do normal farming decisions,” he told Chip Flory, host of AgriTalk.

The EPA and Department of the Army announced a plan on Wednesday to initiate a new rulemaking process to restore the protections that were in place prior to the 2015 WOTUS implementation.

The Green New Deal is sending mixed messages to agriculture as it seeks to work with farmers and ranchers, but also mentions getting rid of “farting cows.”

Changes to the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rules could help ease tension in agriculture about the regulation originally enacted by the Obama Administration.

Two feedlots in northeast Nebraska have reached a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the discovery of manure runoff issues.

AgDay's Clinton Griffiths sits down in a one-on-one interview with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement that requires a kosher meat processing plant in northeastern Iowa to pay a $43,000 penalty.

Cattle and lesser prairie-chickens both need healthy rangeland to thrive. Through voluntary conservation efforts, farmers and ranchers in the southern Great Plains can restore habitat for this iconic bird while strengthening working lands. 

A cattle feeding operation in Walla Walla County, Wash. has been fined $50,000 for failing to manage air pollution.

On Sept. 1, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas overturned the Administration’s listing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken under the Endangered Species Act.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Environmental Protection Agency work through strained relationships.

The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources today advanced the Grazing Improvement Act to improve the livestock grazing permitting processes on managed lands.

Cattlemen are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s findings and rules regarding greenhouse gases .

Drought was the big discussion at this year's Cattle Industry Convention. See those stories and more that will impact your business down the road.

77 Ranch is national winner of the NCBA Environmental Stewardship Award.

Scientist finds that it's the cow-calf stage, not the feedlot stage, that contributes more to greenhouse gases in the beef supply chain.

Nebraska researchers’ new design may prove popular in smaller feedlots.

The 23rd annual Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP) has officially opened its nomination season for 2013

H.R. 2997 would prevent farms and ranches from being treated as toxic waste dumps.

The agency plans to retain the current standard.

The No. 1 priority for National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) vice president of government affairs Colin Woodall is getting the death tax repealed.

The Masonic Village has partnered with federal and state agencies and private ag organizations to manage natural resources.

A new study in the Journal of Animal Science documents the shrinking environmental footprint of beef over the past 30 years.

Nominations for the 2012 award are due by March 2, 2012.

The Environmental Protection Agency decides to retain the current coarse particulate matter (dust) standard.

Today’s conversations about sustainability are well founded, but some of the proposed solutions are not.

Couser Cattle Company, owned by Bill and Nancy Couser of Nevada, named the national winner of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award.

Livestock groups support a bill that returns management authority of gray wolves to the states

NCBA says EPA has once again flexed its regulatory muscle by disregarding its authority under the Clean Water Act.

Joe Leathers of the historic 6666 Ranch talks about the ranch's contributions to environmental improvement and sustainability.

University of Missouri researchers looked at four dead-animal composting systems for their feasibility, flexibility and financial viability.

Agency wants permitting programs to include greenhouse gas emissions so they will be able to implement the agency's first-time GHG permitting requirements starting in January.