⚠️ Taxpayers Stuck With Bill to Clean Up Water Polluted by Big Ag’s Chemical Fertilizer, Animal Waste
The reasons for the persistent pollution problem are multi-fold, including strong industry opposition to regulations to control the farm contaminants + a perverse system in which some gov't programs incentivize farming practices that add to the pollution even as other gov't programs try to induce farmers to reduce the pollution.
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