Legislative

MO-AG Legislative Update

For a listing of the priority bills we are tracking, see the following report by clicking here.

"Stop EPA" Letter Sent to 112th Congress

MO-AG joined several other state and national organizations on a letter to the entire 112th Congress imploring lawmakers to do whatever they can to stop EPA from going forward in developing nutrient criteria. The letter states: “It is apparent that EPA’s development of nutrient criteria in Florida establishes a template for how EPA will structure and impose similar nutrient requirements nationwide. In fact, we are already seeing EPA taking steps to impose its Florida model on the six New England states in EPA Region 1 and on the states in the Mississippi River watershed, which encompasses the entire middle of the United States”. The letter also states that“. . . the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services concludes that Florida’s agricultural community will lose 14,545 full‐time and part‐time jobs and will lose $1.148 billion annually.” The complete letter can be seen here.