The American Farm Bureau Federation, National Pork Producers Council, the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association and United Egg Producers want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups over the regulation of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. These activist groups want EPA to require Clean Water Act permitting for all CAFOs. The agricultural coalition is telling the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals the new regulatory requirements would be a considerable burden for animal agriculture.
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