{"id":13757,"date":"2025-03-21T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:09:36","slug":"march-21-2025-weekly-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/03\/21\/march-21-2025-weekly-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"March 21, 2025 Weekly Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached another Friday!\u00a0 There is certainly no shortage of agricultural law news recently.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13808\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13808\" class=\"wp-image-13808\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/03\/21-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo by Karli Kaase<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>* Synagro releases independent study in Johnson County, TX concluding fertilizer did not cause PFAS contamination.<\/strong>\u00a0 You may recall from this prior blog post that Johnson County landowners have filed several lawsuits related to PFAS contamination of their land allegedly caused by Synagro biosolid fertilizer.\u00a0 This week Synagro issued a press release announcing the results of an independent study conducted on the Johnson County land.\u00a0 The study, done by Parsons Corporation and Dr. Linda Lee, a Purdue University professor specializing in PFAS concluded the Synagro Granulite fertilizer could not have been the source of the PFAS levels found in fish and animals on adjacent properties.\u00a0 [Read press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synagro.com\/2025\/03\/18\/synagro-releases-conclusions-of-independent-scientific-study-on-biosolids-in-johnson-county-texas\/\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* EPA will revise WOTUS Rule&#8230;again.<\/strong>\u00a0 EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced that the agency will work with the US Army Corps of Engineers to revise the definition of &#8220;Waters of the United States.&#8221;\u00a0 This will include a series of six listening sessions to be held to solicit feedback from interested persons.\u00a0 Additionally, the EPA issued guidance for how WOTUS should be interpreted in light of the\u00a0<em>Sackett<\/em> decision. \u00a0[Read press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/administrator-zeldin-announces-epa-will-revise-waters-united-states-rule\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>*&#8221;Texas is running out of water.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The Texas Tribune published an article looking at the situation surrounding water in Texas and what lawmakers and agencies are doing to try and deal with the increased demand for water in the Lone Star state.\u00a0 [Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/03\/13\/texas-water-explained-supply-demand\/\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Court denied Tyson&#8217;s motion to dismiss in greenwashing case.<\/strong>\u00a0 A federal court denied Tyson&#8217;s motion to dismiss in\u00a0<em>Environmental Working Group v. Tyson Foods<\/em>.\u00a0 EWG sued Tyson claiming their claims of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and statements related to their climate-smart beef program were fraudulent and misleading.\u00a0 The court denied the motion finding: (1) the District of Columbia has personal jurisdiction over Tyson because the claims at issue related to all products, including those sold in D.C.; (2) Plaintiffs stated a claim with allegations of a &#8220;fundamental mismatch between the minimal steps Tyson is taking and the actions that would be necessary to achieve its not-zero goal; (3) the First Amendment claim is valid because Plaintiffs allege Tyson&#8217;s commercial speech would reasonably mislead consumers.\u00a0 [Read Opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025.02.03orderdenyingmotiontodismiss.pdf\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Gene Hackman death, will results in complex issues.<\/strong>\u00a0 Professor Gerry Beyer wrote an interesting blog post about the death and estate plan of Gene Hackman.\u00a0 Unlike many celebrities who died without a will, Mr. Hackman had one&#8230;but it left everything to his wife and nothing to his children.\u00a0 This gets tricky when we consider his wife died before Mr. Hackman, and her will said if Hackman did not outlive her by at least 90 days (which he did not), her entire estate would be placed into a charitable trust.\u00a0 [Read blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/trusts_estates_prof\/2025\/03\/gene-hackman-left-fortune-to-deceased-wife-nothing-for-kids.html\">here<\/a>.]\u00a0 To listen to Professor Beyer and I discuss the outcome of other celebrity deaths, and play a game of &#8220;will or no will,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/aglaw.libsyn.com\/episode-147-gerry-beyer-celebrity-estate-planning\">click here<\/a> for a prior podcast episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*US Supreme Court rules for San Francisco in Clean Water Act case.<\/strong>\u00a0 The US Supreme Court sided with San Francisco in\u00a0<em>City and County of San Francisco v. EPA<\/em>.\u00a0 Specifically, the court held that the Clean Water Act permit that the EPA gave to San Francisco was too vague.\u00a0 The permit instructed the city not to contribute to a violation in any applicable water quality standard when discharging pollutants into the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Because there was no guidance, steps, or instructions to the city for how to comply with this permit requirement, the court found it vague and remanded the case back to the lower court.\u00a0 [Read Opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/23-753_f2bh.pdf\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Why early\u00a0 planning leads to succession success.<\/strong>\u00a0 Another great article on farm and ranch estate planning from my friend, Erin Herbold-Swalwell!\u00a0 Erin walks through ten reasons why early planning leads to successful succession on the farm.\u00a0 [Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/farm-business-planning\/10-reasons-why-early-planning-leads-to-succession-success?utm_rid=CPG02000000698080&amp;utm_campaign=93307&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=3d1912df45224ae5945af063e77c7193&amp;sp_eh=106890a768b20d3416a11199e053523fc02ec5e24c7e7f05b665a994aee074ff\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Upcoming Programs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re kicking off April with a bang.\u00a0 On April 1, I will be speaking at the Plains Cotton Growers Annual Meeting in Lubbock and at the Annie&#8217;s Project meeting in Plainview.\u00a0 On April 3, I will be in Stratford to speak at the District 1 TEEA meeting.<\/p>\n<p>To find a complete list of my upcoming programs, <a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/upcoming-presentations\/\">click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached another Friday!\u00a0 There is certainly no shortage of agricultural law news recently. * Synagro releases independent study in Johnson County, TX concluding fertilizer did not cause PFAS contamination.\u00a0 You may recall from this prior blog post that Johnson County landowners have filed several lawsuits related to PFAS contamination of their land allegedly caused by Synagro biosolid fertilizer.\u00a0 This week Synagro issued a press release announcing the results of an independent study conducted on the Johnson County land.\u00a0 The study, done by Parsons Corporation and Dr. Linda&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/03\/21\/march-21-2025-weekly-round-up\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":13808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,81,82,6,4,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clean-water-act","category-estate-planning","category-greenwashing","category-pfas","category-water-law","category-weekly-round-up","category-wotus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>March 21, 2025 Weekly Round Up - Texas Agriculture Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/03\/21\/march-21-2025-weekly-round-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"March 21, 2025 Weekly Round Up - Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve reached another Friday!\u00a0 There is certainly no shortage of agricultural law news recently. * Synagro releases independent study in Johnson County, TX concluding fertilizer did not cause PFAS contamination.\u00a0 You may recall from this prior blog post that Johnson County landowners have filed several lawsuits related to PFAS contamination of their land allegedly caused by Synagro biosolid fertilizer.\u00a0 This week Synagro issued a press release announcing the results of an independent study conducted on the Johnson County land.\u00a0 The study, done by Parsons Corporation and Dr. Linda... 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