Another week, another set of tweets! Please share, RT, click, and follow. (By the way, the featured image to this post is of my friend’s chicken, Penelope, who I often pet-sit!)

Big thanks to @RepEdRoyce for your support in helping us take shark fins off the menu #FinBanNow https://t.co/UtWGk0Ei27

— Oceana (@Oceana) March 14, 2017

“While California led the way with a statewide ban, there are still almost 40 states where the purchase of shark fins is legal,” [Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton)] said. “The United States can set an example for the rest of the world by shutting down its market for shark fins, which are often harvested by leaving these animals to die a slow and painful death at the bottom of the ocean.”

The potential harm is limitless. #NoAgGaghttps://t.co/YT0xN9lRPv

— Mercy For Animals (@MercyForAnimals) March 13, 2017

 A new “ag-gag” bill in Arkansas has passed the House and is now moving forward in the state Senate, marking the surprising return of a disgraced strategy to censor and intimidate animal advocates. The bill would not only let factory farmers sue undercover investigators, but would let nearly any business sue workers, customers, or journalists who expose illegal or unethical workplace activity.

Several states ask to roll back habitat protection for #endangeredspecies. https://t.co/439WBiv42I #animals #wildlife #animallaw #ESA pic.twitter.com/z0IgmIsXOD

— Kelly Levenda (@KellyLevenda) March 14, 2017

More than a dozen state attorneys general are asking Pres. Donald Trump to throw out recent federal rules regulating the environment for endangered or threatened plants and animals. The states claim the rules, which enlarge the definition of species habitat, give the federal government excessive power over state and private lands.

Climate change battles are increasingly being fought, and won, in court https://t.co/XtCS5btSyI #EnvironmentalLaw

— Ecojustice (@ecojustice_ca) March 14, 2017

Climate change litigation is an invaluable strategy at a time when governments have failed to live up to their repeated promises, affirmed most recently in the Paris agreement, to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

Water Utility That Dared Challenge Farm Pollution Says Big Ag Is Trying To Destroy It #BLAW481 #environmentalLaw https://t.co/UPsOHieVUr

— Hilary Goldberg, JD (@GoldbergProf) March 9, 2017

The legislation, introduced last month, would dissolve existing independent water utilities in Des Moines, as well as in the neighboring suburbs of West Des Moines and Urbandale, and replace them with city departments under control of city councils.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Jarad Klein, has deep connections to the state’s powerful agriculture interests. Klein, a farmer whose district is 100 miles east of Des Moines, is a member of the Iowa Farm Bureau, according to his state legislature biography. The Farm Bureau has opposed the Des Moines utility’s lawsuit and donated nearly $10,000 to Klein’s 2010 campaign. Klein also belongs to groups representing pork producers and corn growers, which have opposed the utility’s litigation.

Even deeper cuts coming to @EPA – #Climatechange programs to be gutted, program workforce wld be cleared out. https://t.co/URBETEcolj @axios

— Center 4 Food Safety (@CFSTrueFood) March 14, 2017

 Climate change programs would be gutted under the proposal and the workforce attached to these programs would be cleared out of the agency — in line with the aggressive vision of EPA transition head Myron Ebell.

The Trump Administration, in fact, is now discussing making even deeper cuts to the EPA, according to a source privy to the White House’s internal deliberations. Senior Trump officials consider the EPA the leading edge of the administration’s plans to deconstruct the administrative state.