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Agricultural Law Weekly Review—January 13, 2026
Register Now! Educational programming for January: Jan. 21, AgWorks: Wage and Hour Laws—Requirements and Exemptions Jan. 23, Understanding the Basics of Pennsylvania’s Seasonal Farm Labor Law (Atty CLE) Jan. 27, Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: Standards of Identity—Regulations & Current Issues (Atty CLE) Food Policy: USDA, HHS Publish Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030 🌾 On January 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030 directing Americans to “eat real food,” along with an accompanying website, realfood.gov. The new dietary guidelines recommend that people “prioritize [...]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—January 6, 2026
Register Now! Educational programming for January: Jan. 21, AgWorks: Wage and Hour Laws—Requirements and Exemptions Jan. 23, Understanding the Basics of Pennsylvania’s Seasonal Farm Labor Law (Atty CLE) Jan. 27, Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: Standards of Identity—Regulations & Current Issues (Atty CLE) Agribusiness: Eleventh Circuit Finds Corporate Transparency Act is Constitutional 🌾 On December 16, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion finding constitutional the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which requires certain corporate entities to report “beneficial ownership” to the Treasury Department, and reversing the district court’s March 2024 decision. Nat’l Small Bus. United [...]
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Shale Law Weekly Review—Week of January 12, 2026
PA Impact Fee: Pennsylvania Approves New Grants for Infrastructure, Environmental, and Community Projects ⚡ On December 19, 2025, The Department of Community and Economic Development announced the approval of 135 projects funded by the Pennsylvania Impact Fee, also known as Act 13 of 2012. Through the Impact Fee, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission collects fees from unconventional gas wells and redistributes those funds to local and state governments “to cover the local impacts of drilling.” Over $14 million has been set aside for these projects which span multiple programs and are intended to support community development, infrastructure improvements, environmental protection, [...]
Shale Law Weekly Review—Week of December 15, 2025
Methane Emissions: EPA Extends Deadline for Compliance with Methane Emissions Limits⚡ On December 3, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule, titled “Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review: Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources,” which extends the time in which oil and gas facilities have to comply with methane emission standards (40 CFR part 60, subparts OOOb, OOOc). In March of 2024, the previous administration set new source performance standards for oil and gas sources facilities. The new 2025 rule extends the compliance [...]
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