Emily Ashcraft

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Members of Congress Ask USDA to Speed Aid to...

The U.S. Senate Chicken Caucus, including co-chairs Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Reps. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) and John Rose (R-Tenn.), and 57 other members of congress...

Environmental Groups Ask Again for Allegedly Bee-Harming Pesticide to...

Environmental groups and bee advocacy groups filed reply briefs in a Ninth Circuit lawsuit contesting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should not have registered sulfoxaflor, a pesticide produced...

New Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Major Pork Industry Companies

A new antitrust complaint was filed against companies involved in the pork industry on Friday, alleging that they participated in anticompetitive activity and raised prices for the plaintiffs, a...

Biden Administration Seeks to Dismiss Social Cost Lawsuit

On Friday, President Biden and members of his administration asked the Eastern District of Missouri to dismiss a lawsuit filed by 12 attorneys general against it contesting the administration's...

ANALYTICS: Paraquat, the New Roundup of Herbicide-Related Lawsuits?

The first lawsuit covered by Law Street regarding paraquat was filed in early December 2020. Since then lawsuits with similar allegations against Syngenta AG, Syngenta Crop Protection LLC,...

Court Grants Summary Judgment To EPA In Lawsuit Against...

The Southern District of New York in a judgment filed on Thursday granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) motion for summary judgment, denying the plaintiffs requested relief for allegations...