For nearly 20 years, dairies in Washington’s Lower Yakima Valley have been falsely accused of contaminating the groundwater there. Biased news reports, flawed science, federal and activist lawsuits, government coverups, and even bureaucrats’ covert coordination with anti-farm groups have been exposed as part of the ongoing campaign to smear these farms and push them out of business. Now, as Dillon explains, a Congressman is elevating this issue to the new Trump-appointed head of the US Environmental Protection Agency. While Rep. Dan Newhouse’s letter to EPA chief Lee Zeldin is a win for those in the farming community who have been calling out this likely corruption and the harm it’s caused farms, it remains to be seen whether Zeldin and the Trump administration will take the necessary action to stop the EPA Region 10 war on farming once and for all.
