An Environmental Group this week filed a petition in a U.S. District Court in South Carolina to have the EPA’s Navigable Waters Protection rule thrown out. That regulation was put in place during the Trump administration as a replacement for the 2015 Waters of the U.S. rule. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s President Elect and Minnesota cattle producer Don Schiefelbein says they want the NWPR to stay intact and they expect it to hold up.
He says the Navigable Waters Protection Rule needed to replace the old WOTUS rule because that regulation allowed the federal government to overreach its powers where it wasn’t intended to go.
The EPA is set to hold a series of meetings later this summer and fall to take public input on where they should go with Clean Water Rules. Schiefelbein says his group will weigh in then and fight to keep the NWPR in place.
Despite the environmental challenge, the NWPR remains in effect.
