EPA gets earful about proposed water pollution rules

The Miami Herald reports:

Citrus growers, cattle ranchers, sugar farmers and utility operators told federal environmental regulators Thursday that they are all for keeping rivers and lakes clean, but they don't want to go broke doing it.

They warned that could be the ripple effect from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's unprecedented decision to step in and tighten Florida's pollution laws. The EPA wants to set hard caps on two nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, largely responsible for triggering algae blooms that have fouled waters from the St. Johns River to Florida Bay.