House Committee Gives Handouts to Wealthiest Farmers, Delays Critical Environmental Program

by Gary Kopycinski on July 9, 2015

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WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2015. The House Appropriations Committee yesterday passed an agriculture appropriations bill that destroys critical environmental protections while leaving the lavish and wasteful federal crop insurance program unchecked, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG).