{"id":57803,"date":"2014-09-06T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57803"},"modified":"2014-09-04T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:38:57","slug":"moving-rural-america-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=57803","title":{"rendered":"Moving Rural America Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"letterhead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/letterstotheeditor.jpg\" alt=\"letterstotheeditor\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ToEd\">To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">(Sept. 2014) In January, President Obama declared that despite Congressional logjams, \u201cAmerica does not stand still, and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for American families, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">The Center for Rural Affairs has stood firmly in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s proposed Clean Power Plan as a vital first step in reducing carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants, addressing climate change, and creating opportunities for renewable energy development in rural America. And we have stood up for EPA\u2019s crucial Waters of the U.S. proposal to clear the regulatory waters surrounding the Clean Water Act and better protect rural America\u2019s most precious resource: water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">President Obama must also understand, however, that America\u2019s family farms, ranches and small towns do not stand still either. Nor do we intend to be left behind. The time has come for President Obama to fulfill his 2007 campaign pledge and close the loopholes mega-farms use to get around farm program payment limits, providing them the unlimited subsidies they use to drive up land costs and drive family farmers out of business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text\">We have applauded President Obama\u2019s Administration for moving the new carbon rule forward and for proposing the Waters of the U.S. rule. And if they can do these things then they can by God write a meaningful \u201cactively engaged\u201d rule for federal farm programs that protects family farmers and reins in unlimited farm subsidies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ended\">J<strong>ohn Crabtree, johnc@cfra.org, Center for Rural Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Sept. 2014) In January, President Obama declared that despite Congressional logjams, \u201cAmerica does not stand still, and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for American families, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d The Center for Rural Affairs has stood firmly in favor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}