short excerpt from today's Des Moines Register!  So Obama wants the
support of Iowans who want clean water?  Phyllis
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency ruled out for now
regulating runoff from farms in the Mississippi River basin, saying
voluntary measures should be given time to work.

Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who visited two Iowa farms Tuesday
with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said she assured a gathering of
agricultural leaders that the agency had no plans to impose pollution
regulations like those being used to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
"I am ruling out the need for us to move directly to a regulatory
mechanism when we have folks stepping up and are willing to do the
conservation measures," she told reporters after the visits.

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