Producers received two favorable decisions on regulatory matters last week. A federal court ruled earlier, some 63-thousand producers could not be exempted from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency air emissions reporting requirement.
But the agency still doesn’t know how it will handle the requirement, so National Pork Producers Council spokesman Dave Warner says the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals granted a delay.
The EPA this week extended ‘til September 27th, the public comment period on the Trump Administration’s plans to repeal the much criticized WOTUS rule.
Major farm groups, homebuilders, and others spent years fighting the proposal, defended by environmental groups.
From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service.