Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuirt challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' new rule re-defining the Waters of the United States.
Cameron said this final rule unnecessarily would burden farmers and landowners engaging in everyday farming activities. In the lawsuit, Carmeron asks a federal court to set aside the final rule and to prohibit the agencires form enforcing it.
Cameron says the Biden Administration's new rule requires Kentucky farmers to choose between paying costly permit fees or facing the risk of significant civil or criminal penalties for making simple changes to their property. He says the policy would devastate Kentucky's agricultural industry and farming heritage ... to advance Biden's radical climate policies at the expense of the economy.
Attorney General Cameron also said the final rule would impose significant harm to Kentucky, its farmers and landowners by increasing "planning and permitting costs for state infrastructure projects" and creating "tremendous barriers to produce livestock and crops."
