WA Farmers Put EPA, DOJ On Notice: Backroom Tactics Will Be Exposed

“Save Family Farming files new public records requests to demand transparency, hold agencies accountable as EPA, DOJ continue campaign against Washington state farms.”

“Dairy closes under the cost of dealing with EPA and Department of Justice“

(EVERSON, Wash.) Farmers are demanding transparency from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Justice, by filing new requests for key public records from the federal agencies’ communications, as bureaucrats continue their unjustified campaign against farms in Washington state.

Public records already obtained by Save Family Farming indicate EPA has been pressuring Washington state agencies behind the scenes to assist their attacks on farms. The DOJ last year sued three Lower Yakima Valley Dairies, working with EPA to continue the federal campaign against the farms based on falsified science and an apparent vendetta stretching back at least 10 years.

Now, Save Family Farming is filing more requests for more public records relating to the dubious court case, as farmers’ concerns mount about backroom coordination between the federal agencies, activist groups, outside lawyers and even an out-of-state university professor.

“The people of Washington state deserve to know the truth. Are taxpayer-funded agencies weaponizing environmental regulations to target farmers based on ideology rather than science?” said Ben Tindall, Executive Director of Save Family Farming.

“Are federal bureaucrats secretly coordinating with activists to crush Washington state’s farming community? Are there backroom deals being made to advance this anti-farm agenda? Save Family Farming is working to get these questions answered,” Tindall said.

More than a decade ago, EPA used falsified science–called ‘fraudulent’ by one reviewing scientist–to bludgeon four Lower Yakima Valley dairies with astronomical costs and regulatory burdens far beyond the requirements of virtually any other dairy in the nation.

One of those four dairies closed as a result of the crippling burden, and now even after the other three that remained complied and completed the 2013 agreement they reached with EPA, the agency is suing them again, forcing another one of the farms to go out of business.

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Dillon Honcoop
Communications Director
Save Family Farming