Florida Sues EPA
Former Attorney General, Bill McCollum, and his replacement, Pam Bondi, are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an attempt to stop the EPA from preempting a new environmental bill passed by the Florida legislature in 2009.
The state's Attorney General and Agriculture Commissioner seek to preserve the state's right of control of its own clean water programs. There is also a concern that if the EPA is successful in preempting the new Florida law, it will cost the State an estimated $1.3 billion, just in the Northeast Florida area, in order to abide by the new EPA clean water guidelines.
The EPA is concerned with the amount of pollution entering Florida waterways and wants to limit nutrient deposits in fear of its dangers to humans and animals. Many of the nutrients the EPA are concerned with are fertilizers and other toxins aimed at killing algae blooms. The State has been given 15 months to incorporate the new EPA guidelines.
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