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State Fertilizer Bills: The Greenest Way To A More Natural Landscape?, Catherine M. Janasie
State Fertilizer Bills: The Greenest Way To A More Natural Landscape?, Catherine M. Janasie
Catherine M Janasie
Abstract: State Fertilizer Bills: The Greenest Way to a More Natural Landscape?
By: Catherine Janasie, J.D., LL.M.
Ocean and Coastal Law Fellow
Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program at The University of Mississippi School of Law
Because the Federal Clean Water Act focuses mostly on point source pollution, states consider nonpoint source pollution to be the leading cause of water pollution in their waterways. Until recently, many thought that the regulation of fertilizer use by individual homeowners would invade too much on personal choice, which would make a fertilizer statute too unpopular for state legislators to pass. However, in an attempt …