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Groups sue to stop WOTUS

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, American Farm Bureau, National Pork Producers and other groups have filed suit to block the Waters of the U.S. final rule.

Cattlemen’s President Philip Ellis of Wyoming says cattlemen have asked for greater clarity around the Clean Water Act, but he says the rule does the opposite.  Ellis says the rule’s jurisdictional determinations are so vague that farmers can’t decide what activities will subject them to penalties under the Clean Water Act.

In the words of Pork Producers President Ron Prestage from South Carolina, “We all want clean water.”  However, Prestage says the rule isn’t about clean water, it’s about EPA and the Army Corps taking over private property, growing the size of government and micromanaging farming and business activities.

This lawsuit follows four similar suits filed by officials representing 27 states, all within two days of the rule’s publication on June 29.

The complaint is filed in federal district court in Texas.

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