WOTUS

Over the weekend, Representative Dan Newhouse, Chair of the Western Caucus, delivered the Republican address. The Central Washington farmer used the time to focus on how the GOP believes the policies of President Biden and his party hurt rural America ...

The District of Arizona court ruled this week to vacate the Navigable Waters Protection Rule. However, what the decision means for the rule is one of many questions yet to be answered. Three courts have refused to dismantle the NWPR, including last month when a federal court in South Carolina refused a similar request from plaintiff groups ...

Last week, the EPA held the first listening session on rewriting the Waters of the U.S. Rule, better known as WOTUS. Lauren Lurkins, Director of Environmental Policy at Illinois Farm Bureau, said this provides the farming community an opportunity to be heard ...

The fight over President Biden EPA’s move to roll back the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule is heating up. At least 30 Republican, primarily farm-state senators are behind a bill to make permanent last year's Navigable Waters Protection Rule which reversed the Waters Of The U.S. rule, es ...

Republican Senators on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee led the introduction last week of legislation to codify the 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Act. The lawmakers said U.S. farmers need certainty in the guidelines, so the Navigable Waters Protection Act of 2021 will provide it ...

A federal court in South Carolina recently dismissed a challenge to the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which was crafted to replace the Obama era WOTUS rule. The American Farm Bureau Federation said that court decision gives producers some regulatory certainty, until the Biden EPA finalizes their new rule, a process that could take months ...

USDA will have inputs in federal efforts that affect agricultural producers. "When you're talking about issues like Waters Of The US we want to make sure at all times when decisions are made by partnering agencies that could adversely affect our farmers and ranchers that we want to be at the table and we are always at the table," Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh referring to

The EPA plans to repeal and rewrite the definition of water of the United States, or WOTUS. The EPA announced Wednesday it will repeal the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. rule. EPA Administrator Michael Regan states, “the EPA and Department of the Army have determined that this rule is leading to significant environmental degradation.”

Environmental groups have asked a federal court to vacate the Navigable Waters Protection Act enacted during the Trump Administration. The motion for a summary judgment comes as the Biden administration continues to review the existing water rule ...

EPA Administrator Michael Regan told lawmakers Wednesday the agency would not go back to the Obama-era definitions of Waters of the U.S. Regan made the comments as part of the 2022 Budget Request for EPA during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing ...