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The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its 2016 request for information from the oil and gas industry with immediate effect.  Oil and gas companies may disregard any previous letters from the EPA requiring them to fill out either an "operator ...

Industries for the Environment, a publication for the Arkansas Environmental Federation, recently published an article authored by PPGMR Law attorney Chad Wood entitled, "The Unknown Limits of Regional Haze Requirements."

PPGMR Law was recently honored to have several of its attorneys involved in the 56th Annual Arkansas Natural Resources Institute convention in Hot Springs.

U.S. Senator for Arkansas John Boozman and U.S. Representative Rick Crawford of Arkansas, both champions for expanding U.S. agricultural trade opportunities to Cuba, have reintroduced bills in this new Congress to loosen Cuba related trade restrictions on U.S. agriculture. “It’s time for Washington to enact commonsense reforms so Arkansas farmers and agriculture producers across the country can compete fairly for the Cuban marketplace,” Senator Boozman said.

On February 15, 2017, the House Agriculture Committee of the 115th Congress began laying the ground work for the next Farm Bill by holding a hearing to “review the economic challenges facing rural America.” Although the majority of federal agricultural appropriations are related to nutrition issues, the hearing signaled that the rural and farm economy are priorities for the Committee and current economic conditions in the heartland “must be front and center” as the Farm Bill process begins.