Next Week: Tues. July 15—Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: 2025 Federal Milk Marketing Order Reforms
New! Progressive Dairy Podcast with Center Staff Attorney Brook Duer: How to Proactively Prepare and Protect Your Workforce Amid ICE Raids, I-9 Audits and Other
“Double Counting” or Redundant Mitigation? Second District Holds CEQA Guidelines’ Additionality Requirement Precludes Applying Upstream Energy or Fuel Providers’ Obligatory Cap-and-Trade Compliance To Offset Land Use Project’s Estimated GHG Emissions, Invalidates “Prejudicially Misleading” EIR For Massive LA County Centennial Project On That And Other Grounds
In a partially published 102-page opinion filed June 26, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 7) resolved cross-appeals by affirming the trial court’s judgment invalidating Los Angeles County’s 2019 EIR certification and project approvals for the Centennial Specific
Ninth Circuit Signals Potential Changes to EPA Effluent Guidelines
In Waterkeeper Alliance v. EPA, the Ninth Circuit held that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to properly consider key factors when it declined to revise technology-based Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards (ELGs) for seven industrial categories. The ruling suggests the
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—July 1, 2025
This month—July 15: July 2025 Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar
New! Why Aren’t PFAS Compounds in Land-Applied Biosolids Prohibited By EPA?, Center Staff Attorney Brook Duer, Southern Ag Today
Agricultural Labor: DOL Suspends Enforcement of 2024 ‘Temporary Ag Worker Protections’
Introducing the Department of Conservation and Energy
Act 458 of the 2025 Louisiana legislative session (“Act 458” or the “the Act”), recently signed into law by Governor Jeff Landry, introduced changes to the regulation of oil and gas operations in Louisiana. In addition to enacting changes to
Well, Well: Outlook for CCUS Projects in Texas Improves as EPA Proposes to Delegate Permitting Authority and the Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Pore Space Ownership
On June 17, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule to approve Texas’s application for primary permitting and enforcement responsibility (primacy) for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration wells pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act’s (SDWA) Class VI Underground
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 24, 2025
This Week—Fri. June 27 at Noon: Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration
Register Now—2025 PA Agricultural Law Symposium, Sept. 18, 2025, at Univ. Park, PA.
Antitrust: Federal Court Approves $398 Million Settlement in Chicken Processor Wage-Fixing Class
Indispensable Party: First District Rules Petitioner’s Failure to Join Real Party in Interest Necessitates Dismissal of Action
In Citizens for a Better Eureka v. City of Eureka (2025) __ Cal. App. 5th __, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment dismissing a CEQA action that challenged an approval for the redevelopment of a City of
Texas Legislature Tilts Against Windmills: Is This the End of Wind Energy on the Texas Coast?
Much has been written in recent weeks about how the renewable energy industry in Texas dodged a bullet — several bullets actually — when three high-profile bills targeting the industry failed to pass in the recent legislative session that ended
Louisiana Legislature Revisits Act 312 and Oilfield Legacy Lawsuits
Nearing the end of the 2025 Regular Legislative Session, on June 11, 2025, the Louisiana Legislature passed Senate Bill No. 244 (“SB 244”), which brings significant changes to Louisiana’s oilfield site remediation statute, commonly known as “Act 312” (found at