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Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Mad MAHA Moms

The Make America Healthy Again Commission (MAHA) draft report, released on May 22, 2025, was a spectacular mix of damning claims and interesting “facts.” They all relate to the horrific state of the American diet,...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Releases White Paper on Determining the Absence of Novel Proteins in the Saliva of GE Mosquitos for Mosquito Control

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 21, 2025, the availability of and solicited public comment on materials that are being submitted to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Releases New Mobile Tool to Help Farmers Implement Recommended Ecological Pesticide Mitigation Measures and Announces Webinar...

On August 14, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of its Pesticide App for Label Mitigations (PALM), which is described as an “easy-to-use, mobile-friendly tool to serve as a...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, August 2025

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - PANNA Files Writ Of Mandamus Against EPA For Failing To Respond To Petition To Cancel Organophosphate Pesticides: On June 30, 2025, the Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network North America (PANNA) and...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

President Trump Sends Nomination for OCSPP Assistant Administrator to the Senate

On July 30, 2025, President Trump sent to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) the nomination of Mr. Douglas Troutman to be Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution...more

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Approval of Registration for Uses of Dicamba on Dicamba-Tolerant Cotton and Dicamba-Tolerant Soybean: U.S. Environmental...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issue a July 22nd document titled: Memorandum Supporting Proposed Decision to Approve Registration for the Uses of Dicamba on Dicamba-Tolerant Cotton and...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Seeks Comment on New Plan to Track the Adoption of Bilingual End-Use Pesticide Labels

On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released for comment a new proposed streamlined approach to track the adoption of bilingual labeling of pesticide products and provided updated guidance on...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 7.18.25

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB), the agency tasked with enforcing the state’s climate disclosure rules, published guidance this Wednesday on how companies can comply with Senate Bills 253 and 261 (which govern...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

PANNA Files Writ of Mandamus against EPA for Failing to Respond to Petition to Cancel Organophosphate Pesticides

On June 30, 2025, the Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network North America (PANNA) and several other non-governmental organizations (together, Petitioner) filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus (Mandamus Petition) in the...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Appoints Former ASA Government Affairs Director as OCSPP DAA for Pesticides

Mr. Kyle Kunkler has been appointed the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticides at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). Since February 2020, Kunkler...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

EPA Continues Focus on Antimicrobial Pesticide Enforcement in 2025

Key Takeaways - What Happened: EPA continues to assess significant penalties against manufacturers and distributors of antimicrobial products under the new administration....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

First Six Months of the Trump Administration — A Conversation with James V. Aidala

This week, I was pleased to welcome back to the studio Jim Aidala, Senior Government Affairs Consultant at B&C and its consulting affiliate, The Acta Group (Acta®), to discuss the first six months of the Trump Administration....more

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MAHA Assessment: What Food and Chemical Stakeholders Need to Know

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When the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission unveiled its Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment on May 22 (reissued May 28), it framed the document as a clarion call: U.S. regulators must combat childhood...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Availability of Updated Interim Maps Developed under Its Endangered Species Protection Program

On June 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of updated refined interim core maps that identify areas that EPA states are important to 12 threatened or endangered (listed)...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

HHS Announces Release of MAHA Report

On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the release of a new federal report, Making Our Children Healthy Again (MAHA Assessment) issued by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Are the Kids Not Alright? MAHA Report Sparks Debate on Chemical Safety

The White House’s recent release of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report marks a significant moment in the national conversation around children’s health and environmental exposure. Published on May 22, 2025, by the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Chemical Regulatory Update: The Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment

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The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, as established by President Donald Trump's Feb. 13, 2025, Executive Order (EO) 14212, released its inaugural report on May 22, 2025, titled "The MAHA Report: Making Our...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, May 2025

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - EPA Receives TSCA Section 21 Petitions Seeking Reconsideration Of Exemption Conditions In Final Trichloroethylene Rule: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently updated its website to include...more

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Georgia Limits Liability for Pesticide Manufacturers

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This week, Georgia's governor signed a new pesticide labeling and liability act (SB 144) ("Act"), amending state law to limit the scope of pesticide manufacturer liability for failure to warn and aligning the state standards...more

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FDA Food Chemical Regulation: Understanding Pesticide Action Levels

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) March 2025 publication of its new “Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool” spotlighted a lesser-known aspect of FDA’s regulation of pesticide residues on food: action levels....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Release of Final Insecticide Strategy

On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of its final Insecticide Strategy (Strategy), available here. EPA states in the Strategy that it is “intended to create a consistent,...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Updates to MyPest, a Pesticide Registration Tracking App for Companies

On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced updates to its pesticide registration tracking app, MyPest. EPA states MyPest allows registrants of pesticide products to monitor the status of their...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Changes to Pesticide Data Submission Process for Data Matrix Form

On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced changes on how the data matrix form (EPA Form 8570-35) is submitted to EPA, stating this change is an improvement to simplify the process for how...more

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Trump Executive Orders Signal Potential Changes in Environmental Policy Impacting Agriculture

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The new Administration under President Trump is now over a month old, but there remains some uncertainty as to how the Administration will approach agricultural policy. The Administration’s first wave of environmental...more

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Green Groups Urge Ninth Circuit to Push EPA on Atrazine Re-evaluation

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Environmental groups are once again urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expedite its re-evaluation of atrazine, a widely used herbicide with significant...more

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