Posted on 05/03/2016 7:21:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Recent advertisements, splashed across billboards, buses and radio waves, have taken a pointed approach to discussing the link between farms and water pollution. Now, the EPA is under fire for its indirect funding of the campaign.
One example, which ran on buses, included a photo of livestock standing in a stream and text that read: "Unregulated agriculture is putting our waterways at risk."
The What's Upstream? campaign has drawn criticism for both its approach and its funding - which includes grant money from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Lawmakers have called it an "anti-farmer campaign." The Whatcom Transportation Authority pulled the ads from its buses, deeming them too political.
In a hearing before Congress, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said her agency "was distressed about the use of the money and the tone of that campaign."
Now the EPA is reviewing the grant given to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, which then subgranted money to the Swinomish Indian Tribe for the campaign.
Money for the What’s Upstream? campaign came from a five-year EPA grant of more than $12 million to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, according to Bill Dunbar, a regional policy adviser for the EPA.
The commission, in turn, awarded some of that grant money - about $570,000 over five years - to the Swinomish Indian Tribe, Dunbar said.
The EPA consulted with the tribe on the campaign, "and our attorneys let them know what the legal boundaries were for that kind of thing, for spending federal money," said Dunbar.
But his agency didn't see the ads before they ran, Dunbar added.
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Congress (is supposed to) control the money, but the President can shut them down.
Leftists monkeying with food production...how Soviet of them.
Liberals may soon support ISIS as a way to regulate human population growth, which is destroying the planet through global warming...
many parts of our government are simply pure political advocacy groups, funded by taxpayers.
Along with drastic cuts in foreign aid, there needs to be a similar curtailing of “grants.”
Famine is good for the nation.
In part, many US gov't bureaucracies are tax payer funded corporate/wall st. controlled monopolization operations designed to thin competition and channel wealth to the top of the wealth pyramid. Hopefully, a President Trump will stand and lead Americans to justice. If not, the awakened citizens will just have to raze the DC/ wall st. monopoly ourselves!!!!! Hillary is going DOWN!!!!
Even the USDA is coming out with anti-farm reports! If I were a farmer, I would ignore information and directives
from USDA.
Even the USDA is coming out with anti-farm reports! If I were a farmer, I would ignore information and directives
from USDA.
This is heading toward all our food coming from overseas. Nimbyism is becoming so strong in this country. No one wants livestock processing plants or dusty farm fields in their area. We are already sending American chickens and hogs all the way to China for processing. I’m sure the facilities there are pristine./s
Up till now, the monkeying around has dealt with price setting. Now, the EPA’s emphasis on dust control, feed lots, water quality, etc. is a whole new ballgame. The only purpose is to eliminate farms, and return the land to Mother Earth.
True but supply and demand are Soviet command and control exercise. I agree the EPA is for some idiotic reason trying to kill farming.
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