EPA: Clean Air Act can't restrict farmers' right to repair

Press release

In a letter to National Farmers Union, the Environmental Protection Agency affirmed that the Clean Air Act cannot be used as a basis to restrict independent repair of farm equipment.

“The Clean Air Act and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s implementing regulations clearly support repair by parties other than manufacturers,” EPA Administrator Micheal Regan wrote in his letter to National Farmer’s Union President Rob Larew.

In opposition to Right to Repair legislation, equipment manufacturers and dealers have invoked EPA regulations and the CAA — specifically related to ta...