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Agricultural Law Weekly Review—December 23, 2025
Industrial Hemp: President Issues Executive Order to Reschedule Marijuana to Schedule III Substance 🌾 On December 18, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research,” which directs the Attorney General to “take all necessary steps to complete the rulemaking process”—initiated in May 2024 by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s publication of a proposed rule (89 FR 44597)—to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). According to the executive order and accompanying fact sheet, “marijuana is currently controlled as a Schedule I substance, which is defined [...]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—December 18, 2025
Next Week: Tues. Dec. 23 at Noon—AgWorks: Staying Compliant with Anti-Discrimination Laws National Agricultural Policy: USDA Announces $12 Billion in ‘Bridge Payments’🌾 On December 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the agency will distribute $12 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funding for “one time bridge payments” to U.S. farmers “in response to temporary trade market disruptions and increased production costs.” According to the announcement, $11 billion is allocated for the Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) Program, which will provide payments to row crop farmers who produce barley, chickpeas, corn, cotton, lentils, oats, peanuts, peas, rice, sorghum, [...]
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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 [...]
Shale Law Weekly Review—Week of December 8, 2025
Offshore Drilling: DOI Releases Plan for 34 Offshore Lease Sales Over 5 Year Period⚡ On November 14, 2025, the Department of the Interior released a Secretary’s Order titled, “Unleashing American Offshore Energy.” This order directs the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to terminate the 2024–2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, which created 3 lease sales between 2024-2029. The newly proposed Order would include up to 34 separate lease sales, totaling over 1.27 billion acres, from 2026-2031. Twenty-one lease sales would take place off the coast of Alaska, 7 within the Gulf of Mexico, and 6 off [...]
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