Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced they won’t hear the Chesapeake Bay Watershed case involving the EPA and the American Farm Bureau. The decision means the lower court ruling will stand which allows the EPA to continue requiring the seven states in the Chesapeake Bay to clamp down on nitrogen and phosphorous runoff into the watershed. Nebraska Farm Bureau National Affairs Coordinator Jordan Dux says his group is disappointed with the decision.
He says the EPA regulations in the Chesapeake Bay has precedent setting implications for both the Mississippi and Missouri River water basin areas.
Dux says it may take a new President and new philosophy at the EPA to improve how agriculture is treated going forward.
The farm groups including Farm Bureau had sued the EPA arguing the state’s rights issue needs to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court.
