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May 19, 2022 In News

Grist: Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons....

May 5, 2022 In News

The Fern: Today’s Quick Hits

A U.S. district court judge in Texas ruled that the National Black Farmers Association and the Association of American Indian Farmers can intervene in a lawsuit by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller to block federal debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers. (Public Justice)...

May 3, 2022 In News

WorkCompCentral: Court won’t dismiss complaint over benefits for undocumented workers

A Michigan trial court on Friday denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging workers compensation regulators are illegally and unconstitutionally denying benefits for occupational injuries based solely on the immigration status of the injured workers....

May 2, 2022 In News

WKAR News: MI court advances workers’ compensation lawsuit for undocumented immigrants

A recent decision by the Michigan Court of Claims is letting a case move forward that could change the access that undocumented immigrants have to workers’ compensation benefits....

April 26, 2022 In News

Bloomberg Law: Kansas Denied Supreme Court Review of ‘Ag Gag’ Law Provisions

A lower court’s decision to toss certain parts of Kansas’ law that prevents animal rights and food safety groups from using deception to investigate agricultural facilities won’t face the Supreme Court’s review....

April 20, 2022 In News

E&E News: Biden’s CEQ has a Stephen Miller problem

Former Trump administration aide Stephen Miller is on the minds of Biden White House staffers as they work to channel federal investments toward disadvantaged communities....

March 18, 2022 In News

Law360: Minority Farmer Groups Want In On COVID-19 Relief Fight

A pair of minority farmers associations asked a Texas federal judge Friday to let them intervene in a fight between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and two classes of white farmers who claim they were excluded from COVID-19 relief funds allocated for minority farmers....

March 16, 2022 In News

Law360: Iowa Again Loses Legal Fight To Save ‘Ag Gag’ Law

An Iowa federal judge on Monday ruled that a state law aimed at preventing animal rights activists from filming farming practices violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. ...

February 12, 2022 In News

Wall Street Journal: In Clampdown on U.S. Methane Emissions, Belching Cattle Get a Pass

The Biden administration is taking aggressive steps to curb the energy industry’s methane emissions, tightening pipeline regulations and spending billions of dollars to clean up abandoned coal mines and other sources of the potent greenhouse gas. Agriculture, just as big a source of methane, doesn't...

February 11, 2022 In News

Investigate Midwest: Former OSHA officials urge court to side with workers in case against OSHA

In mid-2020, workers at a Pennsylvania food processing plant sued the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They needed immediate protection from COVID-19, they alleged: They hadn't been provided enough masks, and they were forced to crowd together at Maid-Rite Specialty Foods....