Charleston, WV (WOAY)- Governor Jim Justice has signed into law a bill limiting counties from regulating agricultural operations.
West Virginia’s Republican supermajority Senate fast-tracked Senate Bill 171 without debate or committee oversight.
The legislation bars counties from overstepping state law on agricultural operations.
The bill bans counties from regulating any federal or state-registered pesticide, herbicide, or insecticide.
The legislation has been a source of controversy amid fears that it could remove county zoning oversight that has been a challenge to agriculture and energy projects that residents disapprove of.
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