The Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A West Virginia chicken farmer is suing the U.S. Environmental Protecrion Agency to stop it from imposing wastewater rules on her farm as part of a multistate effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
Lois Alt, owner of Eight is Enough farms in Hardy County in the state's Eastern Panhandle, argues the EPA has overstepped its authority by ordering her to stop polluting streams and obtain discharge permits under the federal Clean Water Act.
Alt says any waste-tainted runoff is agricultural storm water, not "process wastewater," and that means. . .