Agriculture

We represent the agricultural industry in local, regional, and national environmental litigation and rulemakings, providing regulatory compliance counseling in virtually all areas of environmental and natural resource law to growers and producers; pesticide, fertilizer, and other product manufacturers; and national trade associations. Our projects have included:

• Representing multiple national trade associations in connection with revisions to EPA’s NPDES regulations for CAFOs.
• Negotiating a novel, national-in-scope, industry-wide CWA enforcement agreement on behalf of the pork industry.
• Advising several national trade associations on issues associated with air emissions from livestock facilities, and negotiating with EPA a unique national CAA enforcement moratorium for a variety of animal feeding operations in exchange for performing an emissions monitoring study.
• Representing a group of national trade associations in challenging revisions to EPA’s impaired waters/TMDL regulations.
• Representing national trade associations on issues concerning the assertion of CWA jurisdiction over the use of pesticides.
• Representing a national agricultural chemical trade association in defense of ESA citizen suits that would enjoin the registration and use of pesticides.
• Defending individual livestock and dairy producers in EPA and state enforcement actions and in citizen suits brought under a variety of environmental laws.