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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