Dunn Carney Ag, Food, and Natural Resources Team

12/23/2024

Join us at the 2025 Dunn Carney Ag Summit in Salem. This year's keynote speaker is House Rep. Christine Drazan.

Register now for the 2025 Dunn Carney Ag Summit. Join us for a half-day conference featuring ag industry leaders from around the region.

09/04/2024

Headed to the Pendleton Round-Up? Join us at Hamley's before and after the rodeo!

01/19/2024

We are just a week away from the 2024 Ag Summit. We're excited to welcome Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as our keynote speaker. The event is complimentary - click below to register!

Register now for Dunn Carney's 2024 Ag Summit. Join us for a half-day conference featuring ag industry leaders from around the region.

01/03/2024

Please join us for the 2024 Dunn Carney Ag Summit in Salem on Jan. 26.

08/31/2021

The debate over the scope of federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands across the United States continues.

A federal judge reversed one of the previous administration’s most significant environmental rollbacks.

05/21/2019

Several members of our Ag, Food, and Natural Resources Team enjoyed attending the Oregon State Bar Ag Law Section's Annual Roundup in The Dalles last Friday where attorney Anne Foster spoke about food safety. They even found time for a brief post-conference stop in Hood River to embrace more of what the Columbia River Gorge has to offer.

03/01/2019

The United States and Canada held the fifth round of negotiations to modernize the Columbia River Treaty regime February 27-28, in Washington D.C. The U.S. negotiating team will be holding Town Hall meetings throughout the Columbia River Basin to discuss the status of modernizing the treaty. The next Town Hall is scheduled for March 20, 2019, in Kalispell, Montana. Questions can be provided in advance to [email protected]. For more information see: https://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/ca/topics/c78892.htm

02/20/2019

Does the Clean Water Act apply to pollutants discharged into groundwater that migrate to a navigable waterway? The Supreme Court has agreed to hear County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, in which the 9th Circuit determined that the County of Maui violated the Clean Water Act when it discharged pollutants from its wells into groundwater, which made its way to the Pacific Ocean.

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a major dispute with potentially far-reaching implications for how the federal government protects waterways from pollution.

02/16/2019

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army published their proposed revised definition of "waters of the United States" in the Federal Register on February 14. The proposed definition will be open for a 60-day public comment period, which closes on April 15, 2019. This proposal is the second step in an effort to revise the definition in accordance with a February 2017 Executive Order.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army (``the agencies'') are publishing for public comment a proposed rule defining the scope of waters federally regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA). This proposal is the second step in a comprehensive, two-step process intended...

01/07/2019

You're not going to miss this year's Ag Summit. Not yet registered? No worries, there's still time! Go to www.dunncarney.com/news-resources/events-agsummit to learn more.