Farmers urged to support Trump rollback of water rules
Source: Associated Press
Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press
Updated 4:36 pm CST, Tuesday, December 18, 2018
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday called on farmers to throw their support behind a proposal to withdraw federal protections for many of the country's waterways and wetlands.
Environmental Protection Agency acting administrator Andrew Wheeler and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue on Tuesday traveled to middle Tennessee to drum up support among the state's agricultural community in their pursuit to replace the Obama-era water protections.
for many of the country's waterways and wetlands.
Environmental Protection Agency acting administrator Andrew Wheeler and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue on Tuesday traveled to middle Tennessee to drum up support among the state's agricultural community in their pursuit to replace the Obama-era water protections.
"When Obama-EPA put forward these definitions, they claimed it was in the interest of water quality. But it was really about power, power in the hands of federal government over farmers, developers and land owners," Wheeler told the several hundred person crowd in the small town of Lebanon. "We are here today to tell you that we're putting an end of that power grab."
are here today to tell you that we're putting an end of that power grab."
Environmental groups have warned the proposed overhaul will be a grave assault on the aims of the 1972 Clean Water Act, the foundational U.S. water protection law.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Farmers-asked-to-support-Trump-rollback-of-water-13475399.php
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no buyers for this years crop.
until there's toxic sludge coming out of every faucet in America. I've completely run out of duragatory names to call the rotten son-of-a-bitch, so I'll have to go with emojis from now on. 
brought to Tennessee by the Tennessee Valley Authority still hold true. A big part of that New Deal program dealt with efforts to improve water quality as well as bringing electricity and jobs to that area. It's been almost 100 years since that program began, so who knows if the lessons it brought with it are still in place today. I hope they are and that people still understand the importance of clean water.
