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Environmental Groups Pen Letter Opposing Deepwater Port Fossil Fuel Export Applications
April 7, 2021 |Americas

A coalition of environmental and community groups is opposing several proposed deepwater port fossil fuel export facilities throughout the Gulf of Mexico, declaring that the fuel terminals undercut the Biden administration's goals of beating back climate change. In an April 5 letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the groups decried the proposals, which would allow for terminals that could accommodate very large crude carriers (VLCC), which would “drive the global export of massive quantities of domestically-extracted crude oil.” Each of the “proposals has the capacity to load and export as much as 2 million barrels” of crude oil per day, the letter said. The more than two dozen signers, including the Sierra Club, Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity, specifically call for the denial of the Sea Port Oil Terminal, Texas GulfLink, Blue Marlin and the Bluewater Texas VLCC crude export projects, along with all other pending deepwater port fossil fuel export licensing applications.

Canada to Revise Pet Food Import Requirements
April 5, 2021 |Americas

Canada plans to revise import restrictions for certain shipments of U.S. pet food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service said April 1. The changes, which take effect April 13, will require pet food that is imported as “heat-treated” to “undergo temperature and time specific treatments based on the animal-origin ingredients,” USDA said. If the import doesn’t meet those requirements, the shipment must abide by Canada’s import conditions for “raw/minimally heat-treated pet food.” USDA added that Canada will no longer require import permits for raw and minimally heat-treated pet food after April 13.

Agriculture Groups Say Mexican Trade Relationship Deteriorating
March 23, 2021 by Mara Lee|Americas

The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with meat, dairy, corn, soybean and other exporters from 27 organizations in all are telling Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai that the agriculture trade relationship with Mexico “has declined markedly, a trend USMCA’s implementation has not reversed.” They said in a March 22 letter that they're particularly concerned about the glyphosate ban and the ban on genetically modified corn for human consumption; mandatory Conformity Assessment Procedures for cheeses; and the requirement for organic foods to be certified under Mexican standards by June. “This is an extraordinarily short timeline for implementation. If this policy is enforced, U.S organic producers will experience significant trade disruptions as certification can take a year or more for organic companies to become certified to a new organic standard,” they wrote.