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NEW NAT'L PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BETTER RELATIONS WITH EPA
Mar. 20, 2013
BrownfieldAgNews reports:
The newly-elected president of the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is expressing optimism that the next head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will change the agency's culture and attitudes about livestock production.
NPPC president Randy Spronk thinks Gina McCarthy, President Obama's nominee to be the new EPA administrator, will work to change what he calls the "us versus them" culture in the EPA and will treat pork producers as partners and not adversaries.
McCarthy has worked in the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation for the past four-years. Spronk says that while the pork industry hasn't always agreed with McCarthy, she has historically been willing to hear pork producers' concerns.
Spronk's comments were in a column he recently wrote for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.
Meanwhile, Missouri Senator Roy Blunt reportedly has placed a hold on the McCarthy nomination. Blunt says he will continue to block her confirmation until the Army Corps of Engineers provides an overdue update on repairing the Mississippi River levee in Southeast Missouri that it blew open for flood relief in Illinois in 2011.
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