Simply a month earlier, the Environmental Protection Agency turned down modifications to the Clean Water Act sent in 2017 for more reliable policies of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
In action, the San Francisco-based Center for Food Safety and 12 other groups took legal action against the EPA for its rejection to manage agriculture contamination. The court action heats up the problem of livestock backyards contaminating neighboring leafy green fields without a significant option.
The Center for Food Safety (CFS), Food & & Water Watch (F&WW), and others petitioned the EPA in 2017, wanting to enhance “agriculture” water contamination policies under the Clean Water Act.
After waiting more than 5 years, the EPA rejected the petition, stating rather that it would form a Federal Advisory Committee next year to study the CAFO contamination issue and make suggestions for the firm.
The Petitioners’ brand-new suit asks the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to decline EPA’s rejection and need it to instantly reassess essential reforms proposed in the 2017 petition that have the prospective to broaden and enhance water contamination allows for focused animal feeding operations.
The groups taking legal action against EPA compete that farming is the country’s leading polluter of rivers and lakes which “agriculture” waste is accountable for a substantial share, consisting of a minimum of 14,000 miles of rivers and 90,000 acres of contaminated lakes and ponds nationwide.
They mention a 2003 EPA quote that CAFOs created more than 3 times the quantity of raw sewage than our human popu