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Nitram

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1. Conservatives and many farmers are paranoid about new Clean Water Act rules.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:40 PM

Dec 2015

They are worried the EPA will declare farm ponds to be waters of the U.S. the EPA has already clarified that the rules do not apply to farm ponds as long as they do not empty into waters of the U.S.

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Secret EPA campaign to promote water law angers Montana agriculture interests [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 OP

Conservatives and many farmers are paranoid about new Clean Water Act rules. Nitram Dec 2015 #1

What did the EPA say that was misleading? Delmette Dec 2015 #2

I think the upset is with the secret propaganda campaign, not truthfulness. Ptah Dec 2015 #3

Thank you for the link. Delmette Dec 2015 #4

The Gazette fails to mention the decades of anti-EPA and Anti-BLM propaganda put out by the Kochs Ford_Prefect Dec 2015 #5