important story is playing out on the East Coast. For years Chesapeake Bay has been a dumping ground for fertilizer, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other runoff from large urban areas. Finally the EPA at the urging of the six Bay states came up with a plan that limits the amount of pollution entering the Bay. And whambo the American Farm Bureau files suit not because they’re concerned about the Bay, but because they’re worried the precedent could lead to similar plans in the Mississippi River basin. The big river flows through the breadbasket of the U.S. collecting all kinds of agriculture runoff before dumping into the Gulf of Mexico, which has well-documented problems with massive dead zones.
