I read that - what was that about?
Farm lobby - Farm Bureau? that powerful?
Chesapeake Bay a huge environmental disaster but MR basin is even a 
larger body of water being desecrated.

On 4/20/2011 8:33 AM, Pat Knueven wrote:
> It sounds like all of them are dam JOKES.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 8:08 am
> Subject: No help for our water from Obama Administration
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> 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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