Senate Republicans want to define what “Waters of The United States” means.
They have introduced legislation to make a definition of this term permanent. Senators from Iowa and Indiana have endorsed the bill.
Sen. Chuck Grassley says that adding federal red tape to a farmer’s day-to-day operation is government overreach.
The EPA announced earlier this month their intent to rewrite the Trump-era water rule. American Farm Bureau says that draft was working and this is no longer a fight over water quality, but instead, it is over land use.
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