clean water act

Many of this year's top stories in ag, food and environmental law have carried over from 2024 and are likely to remain big in 2026. (UADA file photo)
Crops, Farmland, Government, Hemp, Land, Ranchland, Water

Farmland ownership, WOTUS, pesticide labeling issues among top agricultural law stories of 2025

Foreign ownership of farmland is among the biggest stories in ag in 2025, according to the National Agricultural Law Center. Read More

Sara Wyant
Agripulse, Columns, Columns, Farmland, Opinion, Ranchland, Water

How long can this version of WOTUS stand?

A contractor hired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission uses a helicopter to apply herbicide to phragmites, an invasive, noxious weed, at Niobrara Confluence Wildlife Management Area on the Missouri River near the village of Niobrara. Also known as common reed, phragmites is choking out native vegetation, reducing the amount of wildlife habitat available on the Missouri, Platte and other rivers, reservoirs and wetlands throughout the state. It is also an Aquatic Invasive Species. (Photo by Eric Fowler, for NEBRASKAland Magazine, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)
Corn, Crops, EPA, Farmland, Land, Ranchland, Soybeans, Water

Is latest WOTUS revision the final chapter?

David Murray

San Francisco runoff case could affect farmers

U.S. Capitol Building dome in Washington DC.(Photo by Kristen Labadie, University Communication and Marketing.)

All Americans should celebrate the end of Chevron deference

Farm pond

EPA’s post-Sackett WOTUS rule draws swift reactions  

Farm pond

Is groundwater conservation bill a federal ‘buy and dry’ program?  

(Journal stock photo.)

It’s an EPA miracle—turning your dry land into a ‘wetland’

Iowa feedlot penalized for Clean Water Act violations

Bogus WOTUS no more

Governor vetoes wild rice bill