The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suffered a legal defeat when a federal appeals court recently ruled that Washington state dairy farmers are allowed to continue their lawsuit against the regulator.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a 326-page motion asking the court to dismiss the case, claiming farmers missed a 45-day statutory window seven years ago to challenge a report. The farmers claim the EPA exaggerated the report’s importance and pressured dairies into making expensive operational changes that ran into the millions of dollars.
