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Maine State House, Augusta, ME—Impacted farmers and a coalition of groups held a press conference outside the State House in Augusta today to urge passage of Maine LD 1911, An Act To Prohibit the Contamination o
Today, 10 of 13 members of the Maine Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted to ban the unsafe practice of spreading sludge and sludge-derived compost on land.
The first formal trade dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the renegotiated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is moving to a new phase, with a legally-binding panel decision against Canada’s allocation of dairy Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs)
To read the full testimony of Sharon Treat for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy supporting LD 1911, "An Act To Prohibit the Contamination of Clean Soils with So-called Forever Chemicals" sponsored by Representative William Pluecker before the Maine Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee on January 24, 2022,
On January 14, 2022, IATP submitted comments on rules proposed by the Maine Board of Pesticides Control to require disclosure by pesticide manufacturers about whether their products contain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), and to ban stor
The following comment was submitted to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection regarding the Proposed Rule on Small Business Lending Data Collection Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) on January 6.
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Dear President von der Leyen,
Dear Executive Vice-President Timmermans,
Dear Commissioner Wojciechowski,
Dear Commissioner Sinkevičius,