79 FR 3301
USDA announced the availability of a final guidance document entitled, "Certification Requirements for Handling Unpackaged Organic Products."
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78 FR 54747
President Obama proclaimed September 2013 as National Wilderness Month.
75 FR 78932
The Agricultural Marketing Service proposed revisions to the Federal Seed Act to update regulations and to prevent potential conflicts with states.
78 FR 40940
USDA updated its provisions on plants and plant products in light of recent amendments to the Lacey Act.
78 FR 8040
The USDA proposed amendments to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances for crop production and organic handling.
77 FR 35323
The USDA proposed to supplement its NEPA regulations with three new categorical exclusions for activities that restore lands negatively impacted by water control structures, natural and human-caused events, and roads and trails.
77 FR 28472
The Agricultural Marketing Service amended the USDA's National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances by exempting fenbendazole and moxidectin as parasiticides in organic livestock production.
The Roads More Traveled: Sustainable Transportation in America—Or Not?
There can be no sustainable development without sustainable transportation. It is an essential component not only because transportation is a prerequisite to development in general but also because transportation, especially our use of motorized vehicles, contributes substantially to a wide range of environmental problems, including energy waste, global warming, degradation of air and water, noise, ecosystem loss and fragmentation, and desecration of the landscape. Our nation's environmental quality will be sustainable only if we pursue transportation in a sustainable way.
Local Sustainability Efforts in the United States: The Progress Since Rio
If we want to think about changes in local sustainability over the last 10 years, perhaps the best place to start is with Al Gore. In 1992, just before the Rio Earth Summit and before he was to be tapped as a vice presidential candidate, then-Senator Gore published a treatise on the environment called Earth in the Balance.
Cutting Science, Ecology, and Transparency Out of National Forest Management: How the Bush Administration Uses the Judicial System to Weaken Environmental Laws
The Defenders of Wildlife Judicial Accountability Project—undertaken with the assistance of the Vermont Law School Clinic for Environmental Law and Policy—seeks to fill a data void on the environmental record of President George W. Bush and his Administration by analyzing all reported environmental cases in which the Bush Administration has presented legal arguments regarding an existing environmental law, regulation, or policy before federal judges, magistrates, or administrative tribunals.