Policy & Law
Analyzes local and global laws, regulations, and policies affecting animals and the environment, including legal battles, reforms, and advocacy efforts.
UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition.
US 'God squad' waives environmental protections for oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said exempting oil drilling was a matter of national security.
First Amendment Food Fight: Big Ag’s Attempts to Stifle Consumer Choice
When you think about attacks on the First Amendment — which provides our constitutional right to free speech — your next thought probably isn’t about food. But, in recent years, attacking free speech has apparently become a primary strategy by Big Ag to keep its stranglehold on the food marketplace.
Long-promised animal cruelty prevention laws quietly shelved by Victorian government
Exclusive: Labor bill recognising all animals as sentient and raising care requirements won’t be introduced before state election.
New Colorado Bill Aims to Change How We ‘Depopulate’ Chickens
Many Americans would object to putting a critically sick pet in a hot car to put it out of its misery. Yet since the latest U.S. bird flu outbreak began in early 2022, poultry farmers all over America are using heatstroke to kill sick birds en masse.
Will it save dogs or impede key health research? Two views of Ontario's Bill 75
Omnibus legislation set to resume its journey through the Ontario legislature in March will include updates to animal testing rules, with one lawyer fearing it will end important, life-saving research
Republicans’ New Farm Bill Takes Aim at Animal Welfare and Pesticide Regulations
House Republicans finally released their newest farm bill proposal, only for an East Coast blizzard to delay plans to start debating it. The House is now set to debate the bill beginning March 3.
Hawai’i Coral Reefs Lose Chance at Legal Personhood
Can a coral reef be a person? It might sound absurd, but over the last 20 years, ecosystems around the world have been granted legal personhood, giving them stronger legal protections than existing regulations offer.
UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition.
US 'God squad' waives environmental protections for oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said exempting oil drilling was a matter of national security.
First Amendment Food Fight: Big Ag’s Attempts to Stifle Consumer Choice
When you think about attacks on the First Amendment — which provides our constitutional right to free speech — your next thought probably isn’t about food. But, in recent years, attacking free speech has apparently become a primary strategy by Big Ag to keep its stranglehold on the food marketplace.
Long-promised animal cruelty prevention laws quietly shelved by Victorian government
Exclusive: Labor bill recognising all animals as sentient and raising care requirements won’t be introduced before state election.
New Colorado Bill Aims to Change How We ‘Depopulate’ Chickens
Many Americans would object to putting a critically sick pet in a hot car to put it out of its misery. Yet since the latest U.S. bird flu outbreak began in early 2022, poultry farmers all over America are using heatstroke to kill sick birds en masse.
Will it save dogs or impede key health research? Two views of Ontario's Bill 75
Omnibus legislation set to resume its journey through the Ontario legislature in March will include updates to animal testing rules, with one lawyer fearing it will end important, life-saving research
Republicans’ New Farm Bill Takes Aim at Animal Welfare and Pesticide Regulations
House Republicans finally released their newest farm bill proposal, only for an East Coast blizzard to delay plans to start debating it. The House is now set to debate the bill beginning March 3.
Hawai’i Coral Reefs Lose Chance at Legal Personhood
Can a coral reef be a person? It might sound absurd, but over the last 20 years, ecosystems around the world have been granted legal personhood, giving them stronger legal protections than existing regulations offer.
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