The Inspector General of the EPA is starting an audit of controversial billboards in Washington State which alleged water pollution was the result of agriculture. Nebraska Farm Bureau National Affairs Coordinator Jordan Dux says over sight of the agency’s over reach has long been needed and it’s good the Inspector General is moving ahead with this.
He says the next step that needs to be taken is to cut back the EPA’s budget so they can’t move ahead with any more regulatory over reach.
Dux says the next thing that needs to happen is that people need to go to the ballot box and vote their conscience in the upcoming Presidential election in order to stop every federal agency from exceeding it’s powers.
Agricultural groups have charged that the billboards amount to lobbying which is a violation of federal law. The EPA has already been found guilty of one such anti lobbying violation with its social media campaign promoting the Waters of the U.S. rule.
