The EPA has appointed 33 members to its Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee, which has been vacant since 2016.

Carrie Woods is the agriculture advisor to EPA Administrator

Andrew Wheeler and tells Brownfield Ag News, “I think it’s really part of President

Trump’s commitment to agriculture and rural America and also to Administrator

Wheeler who since he has been at EPA has been very clear that one of his

priorities is to restore trust with the ag community.”

Meadows says all ag topics are open for discussion among the

members who are farmers and allied business people, academia, and state, local

and tribal government representatives, “Water and air quality issues to pesticides,

emergency response which we are now uniquely positioned for, I would think.

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