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Washington and Oregon to Vote on Soda and Food Tax Bans

Posted on October 16, 2018

Washington State Initiative 1634 would ban local taxes on groceries. The initiative defines groceries as “any raw or processed food or beverage, or any ingredient thereof, intended for human consumption

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GFI and Others Sue Missouri over Plant-Based and Clean Meat Labeling Law

Posted on August 28, 2018

The Good Food Institute (GFI), the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, and Turtle Island Foods (Tofurky brand) sued the state of Missouri over a

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Will Pennsylvania Join Other States in Banning Local Soda Taxes?

Posted on July 24, 2018

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages approved by the Philadelphia city council in 2016 (see previous blogs here, here and here for background information

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Bipartisan Bill Would Protect State Marijuana Laws

Posted on June 12, 2018

Several U.S. Senators introduced a bipartisan bill titled, Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act (STATES Act), on June 7. The bill would allow states, U.S. territories,

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Missouri and France Prohibit Labeling Plant-Based Products as “Meat”

Posted on May 24, 2018

The Missouri Senate has passed an omnibus spending bill that adopts SB 977, the state bill that prohibits the marketing of plant-based meat analogs with the term “meat.” The

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Missouri Considers Plant-Based Meat Labeling Bill

Posted on May 1, 2018

The Missouri House approved a bill that would ban companies from labeling lab-grown meat products or meat substitutes as meat (St. Louis Post Dispatch). The labeling proposal is

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Washington Senate Passes Bill to Phase Out Salmon Farming

Posted on March 6, 2018

Current efforts to ban salmon farming in Washington State began shortly after the August 2017 failure of a net pen structure owned by Canadian-based Cooke Aquaculture that resulted in the

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Salmon Farming Update: Washington State Terminates Another Lease

Posted on February 6, 2018

As previously reported on this blog, Cooke Aquaculture (Cooke) sued the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) last month for terminating its Port Angeles net pen lease for

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Washington State Senator Considering Ban on Atlantic Salmon Farming

Posted on November 21, 2017

Washington State Senator Kevin Ranker (D-Orcas Island) plans on proposing legislation in the upcoming session to ban Atlantic salmon net-pen farming, reports the Seattle Times. The legislation is in

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School Milk Nutrition Act of 2017 Proposed to Reverse Declining Milk Consumption

Posted on October 31, 2017

As previously reported on this blog, USDA submitted an interim final rule on July 6, 2017, that would—among other things—expand the types of flavored milk allowed in the school

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