Economist Dr. David Sundberg of the University of California at Berkley has released a report that agrees with the American Farm Bureau federation in opposing EPA’s proposed waters of the U.S. rule. Sundberg’s analysis says EPA failed to provide a realistic explanation of the scope, costs and benefits of the proposed rule. Nebraska Farm Bureau National Affairs Coordinator Jordan Dux says the report reveals what his group has been saying all along.
Dux says this report also shows it’s not only agriculture that has difficulties with EPA’s proposed rule.
Dux says the proposed rule over expands EPA’s authority, is flawed from an economic standpoint and is an end run around Congress and two Supreme Court rulings.
Farm Bureau is continuing its campaign calling on EPA to “ditch the rule” and have it thrown out.