Court’s Chesapeake Bay Decision Deals a Blow to Farmers Nationwide A Federal District Court’s recent decision upholding EPA’s total maximum daily load (TMDL) for the Chesapeake Bay puts federal agency staff in charge of intensely local land use decisions. The American Farm Bureau Federation and other groups challenged the TMDL as an unlawful overreach of EPA’s power under the Clean Water Act and as based on faulty science and inadequate opportunity for public comment. This ruling would essentially give the EPA power to tell a farmer he can’t work the land anymore. The TMDL affects towns, homebuilders, forest landowners and anyone else whose activities may result in nutrient or sediment runoff across the Bay’s 64,000 mile watershed. An appeal is likely.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:10:54 +0000
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