Items Tagged with 'CalEPA'

While the Newsom administration is backing a set of voluntary agreements over freshwater flows, the U.S. EPA is siding with environmentalists and wants to commit 40-60% of the water to fish.

Agri-Pulse spoke with newly appointed Yana Garcia on environmental justice issues, industry partnerships and pesticide emissions in climate policy.

The California State Senate has confirmed the appointment of Julie Henderson as director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Rachel Zwillinger as assistant general counsel for enforcement at CalEPA. Zwillinger previously served as a water policy adviser at Defenders of Wildlife and has also worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council. The CalEPA position does not require Senate confirmation.

Val Dolcini, a former Farm Service Agency administrator and California environmental official, will be the newest member of Syngenta's Washington office.

A proposed regulation could levy a cancer warning on foods containing certain chemicals that are formed through the cooking process.

Farm and business groups are pushing back on a proposal to modify California’s cap-and-trade program.

Sen. Durazo has revived Senate Bill 86 to focus on granular forms of the insecticide still in use after the ban.

Managing lands fallowed by SGMA * Farm groups hail biotech rule, exporters alarmed * Trump presses liability protections

With an anticipated state budget deficit of $54 billion, the governor’s “May Revise” for his budget proposal was not going to bear much good news.