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On June 19, 2020, the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas issued an opinion in the case of Chito v. Pulaski Twp. Zoning Hearing Bd., (Docket 10467 of 2015), in which the court denied a substantive challenge to the township’s regulation of oil and gas drilling. In reaching this conclusion, [...]

This week, center staff were featured in two sections of the American Agricultural Law Association’s Agricultural Law Update (Update). In the Update’s new Practice Tips section, staff attorney Jackie Schweichler wrote an article titled, When Litigation Doesn’t Fit - Try Agricultural Mediation. The Update also spotlights 2020 Penn State [...]

On June 7th and 8th, 2020, Center Staff attended the two day 7th Annual Mid South Ag & Environmental Law Conference hosted online by the National Agricultural Law Center. The conference addressed a variety of agricultural law topics with national importance including agricultural lending, environmental regulations, crop insurance, and more. [...]

On May 19, 2020, Professor Ross Pifer presented in the Ag & Food Law Update for the Mid-South Conference webinar, where he gave an update on Chlorpyrifos, the final rules related to the Clean Water Act, and a summary of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case from Hawaii addressing water [...]

Over the past few weeks, Staff Attorney Brook Duer was a presenter at three webinars conducted by Penn State Extension. On April 9, he presented during the webinar entitled COVID-19 Stimulus Benefits for Sole Proprietors and Independent Contractors. On April 10, he presented at the webinar entitled COVID-19 Stimulus Benefits [...]

On March 9, 2020, the Center published a Special Episode in the Agricultural Law Podcast. In this, special episode we were delighted to welcome Vonda Cooke, State Director of Child Nutrition Programs for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Ms. Cooke joins Audry Thompson to discuss the 2012 changes to the [...]

On February 20-21, 2020, staff from Penn State’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law attended the Institute for Energy Law’s 71st Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference in Houston, TX. During the first day of the conference, speakers addressed current issues in the energy sector including: national security, recent [...]

On February 17, 2020, Brook Duer attended Penn State Cooperative Extension’s annual President’s Day Commercial Fruit School at Biglerville High School. Brook addressed the afternoon session of 100+ attendees on the array of legal resources available from the CASL. Later in the week on February 22, 2020, Brook Duer presented [...]