While Chinese government officials announced an effort to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use by 2020 in an attempt to decrease pollution, the U.S. EPA was in federal court insisting it did not need judicial involvement in determining allowable nitrogen and phosphate runoff into the Mississippi. EPA: Farmers' Friend An aggregation of public comments to U.S. federal agency rulemaking from the Regulations.gov website includes 30 submissions of the rant, "We farmers are sh*t on once again." However, that is not true when it comes to the Mississippi River. While Chinese government officials announced an effort to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use by 2020 in an attempt to decrease pollution, the U.S. EPA was in federal court insisting it did...

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