October 7, 2016
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Election
Clinton, Trump give positions on ag, regulatory policy
This week the American
Farm Bureau Federation re-
leased answers Hillary Clin-
ton and Donald Trump have
submitted on questions con-
cerning farm policy, regula-
tory reform, environmental
laws and other issues import-
ant to farmers and ranchers.
Clinton’s campaign re-
sponded in the third person,
while Trump’s answers were
submitted in irst-person
form.
With the exception of mi-
nor edits of style, the candi-
dates’ answers are presented
as released by Farm Bureau.
Regulatory reform
CLINTON: “Hillary is
committed to operating the
U.S. government in as open
and transparent a way as pos-
sible. She will continue and
expand the open-government
initiatives started by the cur-
rent Administration and will
direct federal agencies to in-
crease the amount of informa-
tion they voluntarily disclose
online.
As president, she will al-
ways engage a wide range of
stakeholders, including farm-
ers and ranchers, to hear their
concerns and ideas for how
we can ensure our agricul-
ture sector remains vibrant.
If there are implementation
challenges with a particular
regulation, Hillary will work
with all stakeholders to ad-
dress them.”
TRUMP: “Our nation’s
regulatory system is com-
pletely broken. Terrible rules
are written by unelected, un-
accountable bureaucrats who
often know nothing about the
people they are regulating.
The regulators have all of the
power, and our nation’s farm-
ers are often forced to endure
costly, burdensome, and un-
wise regulations that are bad
for American farmers and
consumers. Hillary Clinton
will do the bidding of the radi-
cal environmentalists. Wheth-
er through excessive land-use
Courtesy of Zachary Moskow, wikipedia.org
Clinton: “Committed to operating the U.S. government in as open
and transparent a way as possible.”
restrictions that impact farm-
ers and ranchers, environmen-
tal requirements that impose
enormous costs on farmers,
or over-reaching food product
regulations, federal regulatory
burdens have increased dra-
matically in recent years. This
must change.
As President, I will work
with Congress to reform our
regulatory system. We will re-
duce the power of government
bureaucrats, and increase
the freedom of our nation’s
farmers to be as productive
as possible. We will increase
transparency and accountabil-
ity in the regulatory process.
Rational cost-beneit tests will
be used to ensure that any reg-
ulation is justiied before it is
adopted.
Clean Water Act
TRUMP: “First, I will
appoint a pro-farmer Admin-
istrator of EPA. Next, I will
eliminate the unconstitutional
“Waters of the U.S.” rule, and
will direct the Army Corps of
Engineers and EPA to no lon-
ger use this unlawful rule and
related guidance documents
in making jurisdictional de-
terminations. This rule is so
extreme that it gives federal
agencies control over creeks,
small streams, and even pud-
dles or mostly dry areas on
private property. I will also
ensure that these agencies re-
spect the valid exclusions un-
der environmental statutes for
Courtesy of donaldjtrump.com
Trump: “Our nation’s regulatory system is completely broken.”
agricultural practices. To be
clear, my Administration will
work to ensure clean water
for all Americans while also
restoring the proper limits
of federal jurisdiction under
the Clean Water Act. Unlike
the Obama-Clinton team, my
Administration will work co-
operatively with the States
— most of which have been
completely ignored by EPA
under the Obama Admin-
istration-to achieve shared,
common-sense environmental
goals.”
CLINTON: “The Clean
Water Act is one of our most
successful environmental reg-
ulations, helping fulill the
basic right of all Americans
to accessing clean water. Not
too long ago our rivers were
literally on ire, and pollut-
ers were free to dump toxic
chemicals at will. The Clean
Water Act not only stemmed
these environmental disasters
but helped to reverse course
and restore healthy swimma-
ble and ishable waters for all
Americans to enjoy. As pres-
ident, Hillary will continue
this legacy. She will work to
ensure waters are safe and
protected, will maintain the
longstanding exemptions for
common farming practices,
and will continue pushing for
clarity within the law.”
Climate change
CLINTON: “Hillary Clin-
ton rejects the false choice
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between strengthening our
economy and protecting our
environment and climate.
This is particularly true in
light of the historic Paris
Climate Agreement reached
last December, in which all
countries committed to take
national action to cut their
carbon pollution. As Presi-
dent, Hillary will go beyond
the agreement made in Paris,
cutting our emissions by 30
percent below 2005 levels by
2025.
As President, Hillary will
work to make the United
States the clean energy super-
power of the 21st century, and
build off the range of pollu-
tion and eficiency standards
and clean energy tax incen-
tives that have made the Unit-
ed States a global leader in the
battle against climate change
while protecting kids’ health,
saving American households
and businesses billions of dol-
lars in energy costs, and creat-
ing thousands of good paying
jobs.
Over the past seven years,
the amount of wind power
in the U.S. has grown three-
fold and the amount of solar
power has grown 30-fold.
Renewable energy is now
the fastest growing source of
job creation in the country.
America’s farm communities
have played a critical role in
this progress with 99 percent
of utility-scale wind produc-
tion occurring in rural areas,
attracting more than $100
billion in private investment.
Meanwhile, electricity prices
have fallen by 10 percent for
American families and busi-
nesses in real terms.
Landmark vehicle stan-
dards under the Clean Air
Act are reducing U.S. oil
consumption by 1.8 billion
barrels and saving the average
driver $130 to $180 a year.
The Renewable Fuel Standard
is cutting U.S. oil dependence
and carbon pollution even
more.
As President, Clinton will
work to build on this prog-
ress, including by launching
a $60 billion Clean Energy
Challenge to forge new fed-
eral partnerships with states,
cities, and rural communities
across the country that are
ready to take the lead on clean
energy and energy eficiency,
giving them the lexibility,
tools and resources they need
to succeed. This includes ex-
panding the Rural Utilities
Service and other successful
USDA energy programs and
ensuring the federal gov-
ernment is a partner, not an
obstacle, in getting low-cost
wind and other renewable en-
ergy from rural communities
to the rest of the country, and
helping electric co-ops cap-
ture the clean energy and en-
ergy eficiency opportunities
of the 21st century.”
TRUMP: “I strongly op-
pose the extreme, climate
alarmism agenda of the
Obama-Clinton years. Too of-
ten, the Obama-Clinton team
imposed billions of dollars
in environmental costs on
American citizens without
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achieving real environmental
beneits. In fact, the Obama
EPA cut funding to the States
for water infrastructure and
programs that help rural com-
munities while increasing
spending on EPA bureaucrats,
lawyers, and UN climate pro-
grams.
As President, I will rescind
the Climate Action Plan (in-
cluding the Clean Power Plan)
and other excessive regula-
tions issued under the Clean
Air Act that impose unjustiied
costs on American workers
and farmers. My administra-
tion will work cooperative-
ly with the States to achieve
shared, common-sense envi-
ronmental goals. Affordable
energy is critical to the suc-
cess of American farmers.
According to a recent report
in the Wall Street Journal, the
Obama-Clinton climate agen-
da will cost the U.S. over $5
trillion. We cannot afford to
allow the Obama-Clinton pol-
icies of high energy costs and
overreaching regulations to
continue any longer.”
Endangered
Species Act
TRUMP: “America is
blessed with abundant natural
resources and beautiful wild-
life. Our nation has a proud
tradition of conservation and
stewardship. This is more true
for farmers than anyone else.
Farmers care more for the en-
vironment than the radical en-
vironmentalists. Regrettably,
the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) has a poor track record
of actually helping to recover
animals at risk of extinction.
In truth, the ESA has become
a tool to block economic
development, deny proper-
ty rights to American land-
owners, and enrich activist
groups and lawyers. Instead
of saving endangered species,
the Obama-Clinton bureau-
crats are endangering Amer-
ican workers with disastrous
choices made at the whim of
extreme activist groups.
As President, I will direct
the Interior Department and
Commerce Department to
conduct a top-down review of
all Obama Administration set-
tlements, rules, and executive
actions under the Endangered
Species Act and other similar
laws, and we will change or
rescind any of those actions
that are unlawful, bad for
American farmers and work-
ers, or not in the national in-
terest. I will also work closely
with Congress to improve and
modernize the Endangered
Species Act — a law that is
now more than 30 years old
— so that it is more trans-
parent, uses the best science,
incentivizes species conserva-
tion, protects private property
rights, and no longer impos-
es needless and unwarranted
costs on American landown-
ers.”
CLINTON: “Hillary knows
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