Proposed EPA
Water Regulations
Could Impact
West Virginia
Farmers
By Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia
Attorney General
S
ince being elected your Attorney General
in 2012, I have spent countless hours
fighting to protect West Virginians from federal
overreach. As the chief legal officer for our
State, the Attorney General’s Office has made it
a top priority to review every line of every page
of federal mandates aimed at the hard-working
people of West Virginia.
The Environmental Protection Agency has
set its sights again on West Virginia. Its latest
proposed rule redefines the scope of the Clean
Water Act and will hurt businesses across our
State, especially the farming community.
Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA has
regulatory authority over the nation’s “navigable
waters,” known as “Waters of the United States.”
The proposed rule, however, imposes unnecessary
and ambiguous regulations over millions of acres
of water and land that the state has traditionally
regulated, and which arguably have no impact on
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