Posted on 01/17/2015 4:05:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court has ruled for the first time that manure from livestock facilities can be regulated as solid waste, a decision hailed by environmentalists as opening the door to potential legal challenges against facilities across the country.
A large dairy in Washington state, Cow Palace Dairy, polluted ground water by over applying manure to soil, ruled Judge Thomas Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington on Wednesday.
"The practices of this mega-dairy are no different than thousands of others across the country," said Jessica Culpepper, an attorney at Public Justice, one of the firms that represented the plaintiffs, a collection of public advocacy groups.
The case is scheduled to go to trial in March to decide the extent of the contamination and the clean-up.
This is the first time the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which governs the disposal of solid and hazardous waste, has been applied to animal waste from a farm.
Industrial livestock operations produce hundreds of millions of tons of manure annually.
The district court ruling, if upheld, could affect any large livestock facility that produces more manure than it can responsibly manage, including poultry, beef and hog farms, Culpepper said.
An attorney for Cow Palace said on Friday that it plans to ask for an appeal.
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So the bureaucrats want us to starve? How is this different from the Soviet Union under Lenin or Stalin?
....”We have got to start holding people in positions of power accountable for their stupid ideas!”.....
Really...just how are you going to do that? Since when have politicians on either side listened to us?
If you eat, you will be held to account.
Folks, it’s getting ugly.
(the last part is for you nice people at the NSA.)
I wonder if Jessica Culpepper eats food. She deserves to pay all our additional costs this will cause...
Next up, EPA issues reg holding all wildlife responsible for pooping in the woods -—— Yogi and BooBoo not happy!
Why not sue the cows.
We are too far removed from reality in our urbanized, sanitized society. Well, Jessica Culpepper we correct that but will likely not starve herself.
Yea, that’s a good idea. Bankrupt the food producers to make yourselves feel righteous about saving the environment.
So the bureaucrats want us to starve?
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This doesn’t seem to be an authentic agricultural process. It reads like the dairy was dumping waste on the fields. Regardless, what’s the use of food if you poison the water.
Let’s hold politicians accountable by the same standards. Their mouth excretes far more manure than any cow ever does...
What about the pollution from manure produced by black-robed clowns in the federal courts?
Awesome decision..........
Regardless of the majority here that think that being conservative means a license to destroy ground water, and damage people in the process.
The factory farm model was actually invented by a leftist university called Cornell. We were doing just fine with grazing livestock and solid waist disposal which did not create so many severe problems.
If you were take a crap in an open field the DEC could hall your butt to jail for contamination. But these MODERN farm methods could dump 1000 gallons of raw liquid manure in one spot and get away with it.
The district court ruling, if upheld, could affect any large livestock facility that produces more manure than it can responsibly manage ...As far as I know, this particular aspect isn't new. What's new is the vector of liability being a federal agency rather than a neighbor or the state.
Know your manure management liability - Farm and Dairy
The Common Law | PERC - The Property and Environment Research Center
An Obama judge.
There were only three votes against this loon:
Lee, Mike
DeMint, Jim
Chambliss, Saxby
Isakson, John
this is surely the biggest load of crap i can imagine
I think 2 +2 =4
Am I missing something?
Surf’s Up! *-)
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