US Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ask the agency to withdraw its proposed rule for wastewater discharged by meat and poultry processors.
The letter, supported by nine other Republican senators and 17 Republican representatives, was directed to EPA Administrator Michael Regan on March 4. The members of Congress wrote that EPA’s proposed rule does not align with federal initiatives to expand small- and medium-sized independent processing facilities. The rule would expose hundreds of operators to a new regulatory regime with significant costs, the letter said. Read more