Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the freedoms that we have, we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome, overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding governmen
T the Supreme Court halted implementation of the power plan until legal challenges against it are resolved in the courts. Some members a discussed the flint, michigan, water contamination crisis. This is three hours. Ive asked mike bosh to open with a prayer. Dear heavenly father, we thank you so much for the we opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the res freedoms that we have. Make we thank you that you have blessed up as you have with thee rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing. We ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you, michael. I want to thank you m administrator mccarthy for being here this morning. The appreciate you being here. Y theres a reason, a top issue for nearly every member of our ag committee is related to the n regulatory agenda for the Environmental Protection agency. Many members of this committee believe the agenda has been absent
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And dont you think this is an unforeseen consequence of congress interjecting itself into the markets . Senator, thank you. I would say we are seeing what ducks unlimited and others are calling a crisis in the prairies. We certainly, if you think about the states of north dakota and south dakota, which are really the heart of water fowl production for the United States of america, we have Energy Development in the balken oil fields squeezing from the west and we have Agricultural Development squeezing from the east, and so there is no doubt that we are seeing widespread and unprecedented conversion of habitat that is and if i can interject, because that clock is ticking. Part of that reduction in habitat is putting more of the land into corn to to respond to this Public Policy decision that the federal government has made. That is a fact, is it not . Certainly a part of the demand is related to use for ethanol. But the market is a Global Market for corn and soybean, and the Global Mark
Is that something that you want to speculate on . I think at already speculated. I will note that there is into the record and analysis. Looking at future power costs and actually anticipates their reaction. That is maybe for another hearing or another debate and discussion. Lets turn to our second panel if they could come forward. [inaudible conversations] welcome. It is great to have you all. Happy to introduce our second panel of witnesses. A Diverse Group including three individuals who will talk about how Climate Changes impacting their area of expertise and to minority witnesses who will present their perceptions on as Climate Change skeptics. I will go ahead and introduce everyone now. Then we will proceed with the testimony. Our first witnesses jamals which i am particularly delighted to have you here from oregon. Jim serves as the executive director of lake county resources initiative, an organization dedicated to improving Forest Management and National Forests expanding the