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The federal Environmental Protection Agency will begin reviewing a plan put forth by the Ohio EPA to reduce phosphorus in the Maumee River watershed - major tributary to the western Lake Erie basin.

A proposed agreement is designed to force EPA to provide more oversight over animal feeding operations and discharge permits in Pennsylvania, but a former agency attorney is skeptical of the agreement's final impact on the enforcement of the Clean Water Act.

The poultry industry is keeping a close eye on the future of litigation in Maryland that resulted last week in a court decision finding ammonia should be regulated as a water pollutant.

The Environmental Protection Agency is being sued for failing to require Pennsylvania and New York to meet nutrient reduction goals for the Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency in the next several weeks for not enforcing Clean Water Act requirements to reduce pollution flowing into the bay.