Josh Harder: “This is a program that I think really works.”

Every single environmental advocate, every single farmer in our district is on board with this effort.

Frankly, if grades were any worse than F, we would have gone all the way to Z.

Obviously, we want to do everything we can to fix this before we become where we are on track to be, which is the first time in U.S. history that a community would be subject to penalties this severe.

During that 4 years, while EPA was reviewing what we do to improve our air quality, more than 4,000 adults had their lives cut short by poor air quality just in our region.