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Secret EPA campaign to promote water law angers Montana agriculture interests [View all]
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Secret EPA campaign to promote water law angers Montana ag interests
By TOM LUTEY tlutey@billingsgazette.com
Updated 10 hrs ago
Montana farm and ranch groups are angry at the Environmental Protection Agency, which was caught running a secret propaganda campaign to sway public opinion about new clean water rules affecting agriculture.
A report Monday by the Government Accountability Office concludes that the EPA used “covert propaganda” to tip public opinion in favor of the “Waters of the United States,” rule before the agency began collecting public comment on it.
“They’re supposed to take comments on this rule, as part of the rule-making process,” said John Youngberg of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation. “Because they were out there promoting this, they got ahead of themselves a whole bunch.”
Farm Bureau representatives are in Washington D.C. this week to urge Congress to block the EPA from spending money on rolling out the rule, which expands federal protection of waterways and sources of drinking water.
Secret EPA campaign to promote water law angers Montana ag interests
By TOM LUTEY tlutey@billingsgazette.com
Updated 10 hrs ago
Montana farm and ranch groups are angry at the Environmental Protection Agency, which was caught running a secret propaganda campaign to sway public opinion about new clean water rules affecting agriculture.
A report Monday by the Government Accountability Office concludes that the EPA used “covert propaganda” to tip public opinion in favor of the “Waters of the United States,” rule before the agency began collecting public comment on it.
“They’re supposed to take comments on this rule, as part of the rule-making process,” said John Youngberg of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation. “Because they were out there promoting this, they got ahead of themselves a whole bunch.”
Farm Bureau representatives are in Washington D.C. this week to urge Congress to block the EPA from spending money on rolling out the rule, which expands federal protection of waterways and sources of drinking water.
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