The political arm of the Nebraska Farm Bureau has thrown its support behind U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer in her bid for re-election. Mark McHargue, head of the Nebraska Farm Bureau’s political action committee, cited Fischer’s work on such things as encouraging the repeal of the EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, promoting trade deals […]
I supported the Trump administration’s recent announcement to delay the implementation of WOTUS for two years as federal agencies go back to the drawing board on defining navigable waterways to give private property owners clarity and peace of mind. In defining the scope of the Clean Water Act, the Trump administration has been guided by […]
The Department of Justice wants legal challenges related to the Obama-era Clean Water Rule to play out in a Texas court. The Trump administration, which recently finalized a suspension of the rule, asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York yesterday to move two lawsuits challenging that delay to the U.S. […]
Also, one of President Trump’s Executive Orders would undo the excessive 2015 “Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule” exerting federal control over nearly every stream, ditch, pond and puddle on state and local lands, as well as private property. I was involved in early efforts to block the precursor of the WOTUS Rule and […]
The American Farm Bureau and a broad coalition of ag industry groups are asking a federal district court in Texas to issue a nationwide stay of the 2015 Waters of the U.S. Rule. South Dakota Farm Bureau President Scott VanderWal says when the Supreme Court ruled that the jurisdiction for WOTUS belonged to the district […]
Some key opponents of the Obama-era Clean Water Rule are turning to a Texas federal court in their quest to obtain a nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the rule. States and a coalition of farm and industry groups filed preliminary injunction motions this week in separate lawsuits pending in front the U.S. District Court for […]
For the most part, Trump’s deregulatory efforts to date have been pretty simple: where the Obama administration tended to push federal powers to the maximum limits allowed under law, Trump’s appointees have minimized them. For example, everyone who looked at it agreed that Obama’s Waters of the United States Rule expanded federal control and changed […]
No hearing on regulations and agriculture would be complete without discussion of the “waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS, rule. Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told the committee that farmers need regulatory certainty and that AFBF is looking forward to continue working with EPA to develop common-sense rules. Continue reading at […]
In 2015, the Obama administration finalized its infamous “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule—also known as the Clean Water Rule—that sought to regulate almost every type of water imaginable under the Clean Water Act. To its credit, the Trump administration is taking action to get rid of this rule by withdrawing it and then […]
The American Farm Bureau Federation has launched a Twitter campaign using flocks of rubber ducks to push for limits to regulated waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The slogan: “If you can’t #FloatUS, it’s not a WOTUS.” “We think there are really broad and important reasons for the administration to develop a rubber duck […]