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Indiana senator says farmers deserve explanation
Indiana Senator Dan Coats joined a bipartisan group of senators in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting an explanation why the agency leaked personal information of over 80,000 farmers and ranchers to environmental groups.
The personal information leaked by EPA earlier this year included names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Coats says, “These EPA leaks are unacceptable and raise questions about whether the agency is more concerned with appeasing environmentalists than protecting the men and women who make our food production system possible.” He says Indiana’s farmers should be able to earn a living form their hard work without having their personal information disclosed.
Senate Amendment 970, sponsored by Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, which would have prohibited EPA from disclosing sensitive livestock producer information in the future, has been blocked by Senate Democrats.
Tags: EPA, Farm Legislation, Indiana, Senator Coats
The information should be public.
Thier hard work has cost us 12 billion over. 17yrs & thats in iowa only. Lord knows we cant trust the politicians or the oversite commities they create.