Last Minute Move Would Delay EPA Rule (dust and soot) - AP

[Eugene]

Last Minute Move Would Delay EPA Rule

By JOHN HEILPRIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 6, 2006; 8:14 PM

WASHINGTON -- Farmers would be off the hook for costly air pollution
cleanups under an obscure provision slipped into a tax bill that may be
the last act of this Congress.

Buried in the fine print of the bill filed Wednesday, the measure by Senate
Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, would forbid the
Environmental Protection Agency from applying the Clean Air Act to dust
and soot from farms until 2012.

Environmentalists complain the moratorium would grant farmers a five-year
holiday from the EPA's health standards for fine particles and soot, which
protect people living downwind.

An EPA rule last year set new standards for regulating soot, dust and other
coarse air pollution particles aimed at industrial and urban sources, but it
did not exempt farmers.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601807.html

[acmejack]

1. Republiclowns to the bitter end.

See what they think of the will of the people?