Lawmaker: Take water regulation away from Ag agency

Anson Tebbetts is sworn in as agriculture secretary. VTDigger file photoThe Agency of Agriculture may no longer be regulating water quality within the same farm industry that it’s responsible for promoting, if a Bennington lawmaker’s proposed legislation passes.
The transfer of authority would represent a legislative rebuke to an agency that has allowed farming to pollute Vermont public waters, with some rendered unsafe for swimming and drinking for months at a time.
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