; and (bb) allows destructive mountaintop removal coal mining companies to dump waste into streams and lakes, polluting the surrounding natural habitat and poisoning plants and animals that depend on those water sources. (ii) Livestock waste regulations (I) On February 12, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency published the rule entitled National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitation Guidelines and Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (68 Fed. Reg. 7176), new livestock waste regulations that aimed to control factory farm pollution but which would severely undermine then-existing protections under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.). (II) The regulation described in subclause (I) allows large-scale animal factories to foul waters in the United States with animal waste, allows livestock owners to draft their own pollution-management plans and avoid ground water monitoring, legalizes the discharge of contaminated runoff water rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, bacteria, and metals, and ensures that large factory farms are not held liable for the environmental damage they cause. (III) In a 2005 Federal court decision, Waterkeeper Alliance, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 399 F.3d 486 (2nd Cir. 2005), major parts of the rule were upheld, others vacated, and still others remanded back to the Environmental Protection Agency. (IV) On November 20, 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency published a revised final rule, entitled Revised National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Response to the Waterkeeper Decision (73 Fed. Reg. 70418), that undermines environmental protection provisions by removing mandatory permitting requirements and allowing large animal farms to self-certify the absence of pollutant discharge activity. (iii) Total maximum daily load (I) On March 19, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency