Five agricultural, agribusiness and municipal groups, including KLA, have filed to intervene in the Friends of the Kaw (FOK) nutrient runoff lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). KLA, the League of Kansas Municipalities, Kansas Corn Growers Association, Kansas Agribusiness Retailers Association and Kansas Cooperative Council sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson last week stating their intent and calling the FOK action "groundless".
On June 2, FOK filed a notice of intent to sue EPA for failing to enforce federal water quality standards for nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in Kansas. The concern of the intervening group is EPA would use the FOK action to impose extremely restrictive and scientifically unjustified nutrient regulations on Kansas farmers and ranchers. The letter stated the group’s hope that EPA does not try to impose a one-size-fits-all nutrient criteria, which would be indefensible and inappropriate, as such approaches would squander limited state and local resources and suspend other more important habitat restoration efforts.
Source : KLA