Amanda Kolitsos - April 10, 2017
The Des Moines Water Works suit against upstream farmers gets shut down, and WOTUS likely will look a lot different, in a good way, under President Trump’s EPA. Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis has the updated news. Listen to…
Amanda Kolitsos - Jan. 31, 2017Des Moines, Iowa’s water division has been told it can’t collect monetary damages from upstream water districts, but still pending is the legal fight over whether farms and watersheds can be designated point sources of pollution. Farm Bureau law director…
Joe Cornely - April 8, 2016
From a farmer’s perspective, John Duarte’s California wheat field doesn’t look very special – a typical shallow- plowed field awaiting its next planting. But in the eyes of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the bottom of every furrow is…
Lynn Snyder - Oct. 15, 2013The American Farm Bureau Federation took action to appeal a recent court decision that upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s “pollution diet” for the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake Bay watershed.
