This case will decide whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may evade its duty to analyze the devastating environmental impact of its actions on Florida’s Apalachicola River, floodplain, and bay, and to mitigate its actions’ adverse effects in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin.

A nationwide coalition of 50 citizens’ groups and community advocacy, environmental justice, and environmental advocacy organizations, together representing tens of millions of people, in partnership with Earthjustice, petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve its oversight of water pollution from industrial-scale concentrated animal feeding operations, commonly known as Large CAFOs. The petitioning groups argue that improved oversight of Large CAFOs is necessary to satisfy the federal Clean Water Act and executive orders intended to advance environmental justice.