Farm Bureau Endorses Trump EPA Nominee

The American Farm Bureau Federation Wednesday said the organization “strongly endorses” the nomination of Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency administrator. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Pruitt to lead the EPA in his administration. AFBF President Zippy Duvall calls Pruitt an “ideal nominee.” In a letter to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Chairman Duvall cited Pruitt’s contesting of the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. rule, also opposed by many farm groups. Duvall says Farm Bureau’s support for Pruitt is based on the nominee’s “respect for the law” and his understanding of the need for an agency to “live within the statutory programs Congress has authorized.”