Florida 10th Amendment Center warns EPA nutrient standards will ‘strangle’ state’s farmers

Lone fisherman on St. John's River. [Photo by Kay B. Day]

Andrew Nappi, director of the Florida Tenth Amendment Center, has issued a warning about water nutrient standards the Environmental Protection Agency aims to impose on The Sunshine State. In an official statement, Nappi asked state legislators and congressmen at the federal level to “stand up for Florida’s agriculture and sovereignty.”

Nappi said, “Everyone wants clean air and water.” But he said the Clean Air and Water Act is an “unfunded mandate imposed upon the sovereign states by the general government.” Nappi believes the act will “wreak destruction on Florida’s farmers.”

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