39 Members Of Congress Urge Court To Block Chesapeake Cleanup Because Hitler And Tyranny And Freedom

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The filing comes after the court’s deadline for submitting legal papers in the case. But the lawmakers argue they have a special interest in weighing in, saying the EPA went too far in negotiating a 2010 agreement that sets pollution limits in the nation’s largest estuary. Lawmakers “have a clear interest in ensuring that Congress’s supreme legislative and policymaking role is not usurped by unelected executive branch agencies,” they wrote. “If allowed to stand, the decision … would allow EPA to usurp the traditional state authority over economic development and land-use management decisions.”

At issue is a federal-led effort to restore the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake watershed by 2025. In 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order for a bay restoration after decades of state inaction, prompting the EPA to seek agreements with six states and the District of Columbia that set standards to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment that drain from rivers into the bay.

The multi-state agreement was challenged in 2011 by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which pointed to economic consequences for industry groups.

A recent study by environmentalists found states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have made strides in reducing pollution but in many cases fell short in implementing practices that cut contaminants from agriculture. Farm runoff from animal waste and fertilizer has created “dead zones” in the bay where nothing lives, taking a toll on the bay’s signature blue crab.

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