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Article: PA Fair Share for Clean Water Coalition: State Budget Leaves Behind Farmers, Nutrient Credit Trading Bank Needed to Meet PA Clean Water Mandates.
- Article from:
- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- September 4, 2008
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While the budget adopted by the state in July included major new funding to improve wastewater infrastructure, it did little to address the needs of farmers required to meet state and federal clean water mandates or to create a Nutrient Credit Trading Bank that would lower the cost of meeting the mandates, according to the Pennsylvania Fair Share for Clean Water Coalition.
Representatives of the Coalition, including the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, Pennsylvania Builders Association, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, presented testimony today to the House Agriculture ...