FARM GROUPS BATTLE USE OF CLEAN WATER NONPOINT FUNDS FOR CITIES

Agricultural interests are fighting legislation that would allow municipalities to use key EPA nonpoint source water pollution control funds to meet the requirements of an EPA municipal stormwater control rule that took effect this year, which would divert funding from addressing other nonpoint sources -- such as agriculture. The opposition is part of a larger conflict over the extent to which municipalities can tap EPA funds that address diffuse "nonpoint" water pollution sources in the wake of regulations that do...