Water Rule Repeal Makes EPA’s Pruitt a Farm Hero

A ballroom full of farmers gave the new EPA administrator a hero’s welcome Feb. 28 as he announced his agency would begin the process of repealing an Obama-era water regulation.

Scott Pruitt came to an agriculture industry convention in Maryland directly from the White House, where President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to begin the process of rescinding the so-called Waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule.

“Relief is on the way,” Pruitt told the attendees the American Farm Bureau Federation convention, as they applauded in one of the three standing ovations that the Environmental ...