A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: APHIS, FWS

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE

Notice announcing to the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service intends to prepare an environmental impact statement evaluating the impacts that may result from the approval of a petition for nonregulated status for blight-tolerant Darling 58 American chestnut from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Info here.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Final rule removing Trifolium stoloniferum (running buffalo clover) from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants on the basis of recovery. Info here.