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big ag interests going after the MPCA - is there a connection?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:52pm.

MPCA has a huge dataset on land and water pollution, and a broad coalition of scientists are indicating that Minnesota River nutrient loading from agricultural watersheds is the primary force behind the impaired waters listing of the Mississippi River at Lake Pepin.  Big ag lobbyists are ramping up to discredit this dataset.  This backlash against science and the MPCA coupled with a purported relationship between big ag lobbyists (aka public relations firms like Himle-Horner) and the Troubled Waters film,  can best be construed that big ag is running scared as more and more science is coming to show the environmental (and human health) disasters of their interests.  Big ag backlash sounds a bit like the big oil backlash against California clean energy policy through their Proposition 23 on the November ballot.

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