Over the last year, Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson has been sounding the alarm on the current Biden administrations regulations from EPA and other agencies that have a negative impact on Florida’s farmers.
“This job is so rewarding but it also becomes overwhelming when you constantly have to deal with the over regulations that come down from this federal government on the agriculture industry,” said Simpson.
Not only does Simpson’s office deal with growers but those that transport the goods to farmers.
Now there’s a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the American Petroleum Institute (API), which includes over 600 entities of those in the trucking and farming industry.
The suits suit says Biden’s EPA mandates that 40% of new work trucks and 25% of larger vehicles like semi’s, must zero emissions vehicles as early as 2032.
Commissioner Simpson has opposed these new rules, calling them ridiculous and too costly to Florida’s trucking industry and farmers.
“Biden and Harris just don’t seem to get it. Every time you force a new regulation or tax onto those that produce and carry the food we eat, those cost get passed on to Florida consumers in higher prices,” said Simpson.
Florida farmers say the mandates being imposed on them are “unworkable.
Commissioner Simpson says if Vice President Harris is elected as President, things will get worse for Florida Truckers and the state’s agriculture community.
Farmers and others are challenging the new mandates questioning the EPA in their lawsuit saying the federal government, and the EPA has no authority telling business to get off gas powered vehicles and be forced to go on electric vehicles as their main way of transporting goods to the state.
“Since I got elected, I have been constantly fighting against this one size fits all Washington DC mentality they think works for every other state including Florida,” said Commissioner Simpson.
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