EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Rep. Dusty Johnson tour SDSU
Group gets briefing on SDSU's precision agriculture technology program
Rep. Dusty Johnson and South Dakota State University hosted a briefing for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin Saturday, part of Zeldin’s tour of the Midwest.
Zeldin, a former New York congressman who served with Johnon in the U.S. House, had been at the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island on Friday. Prior to that, he was in Wyoming where the EPA moved to accept that state’s plan to regulate coal combustion residuals – the byproduct of coal-fired power plants.
In South Dakota, Zeldin was at SDSU to learn about advances in precision agriculture and its role in food production and how it can be used to boost President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again initiative, Johnson said.
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