The American Farm Bureau Federation has a right to join in a lawsuit over the scope of the EPA’s authority to regulate poultry and livestock farms under the Clean Water Act. That’s the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. The suit comes from a West Virginia poultry grower who is challenging an EPA order demanding that she obtain a CWA discharge permit for stormwater runoff from her farmyard. Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman says the court clearly recognizes the importance of this case for thousands of other farmers threatened by EPA’s unlawful restriction of the agricultural stormwater exemption. He says the court rejected EPA’s argument that other farmers facing similar EPA demands should be forced to file their own lawsuits.