MILWAUKEE — Lawyers for several environmental groups have notified the US Environmental Protection Agency of their intent to sue the agency for failing to protect Wisconsin water from phosphorus and nitrogen pollution that can cause toxic algae blooms and threaten drinking water quality, according to the Journal Sentinel’s “Nature’s State” news blog.
The EPA said in 1999 that it would start to regulate the pollutants, which come from farm fields, manure, lawns and municipal wastewater treatment plants.
The state of Wisconsin has been tracking phosphorus loadings in state waters, and that is one reason why the law firms, the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center and Madison-based Midwest Environmental Advocates, selected Wisconsin.
Albert Ettinger of the Environmental Law & Policy Center told Journal Sentinel reporter Lee Bergquist, “The science is farther ahead in Wisconsin.”
According to the blog, the threat of a potential lawsuit could set the stage for new regulations of phosphorus and nitrogen.
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