“It’s time Congress banned erosion, for our own good”
They actually have...or at least the EPAs interpretation of the 1973 Clean Water Act has banned it. I work in construction and every project includes a permitting process and measures that let us make believe we can stop erosion. If we let a permit slip...the EPA shows up with badges (like a sheriff’s badge) and shakes you down like the mafia. In my case: you can pay the $12k fine or fight the $120k fine...I blinked and my company paid the small one.
Anyway - erosion has been outlawed. Same with wind erosion - ask anyone who operates a quarry about that...and of course now farmers who till up dust are in their sights.
Not surprising. Law makers don’t think they’ve done their job unless they pass some stupid ban, thinking they’re serving the public. Like butterfly knives because they “look scary”. Or using your own land because it “harms the environment”.
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They once even jailer a California farmer because his disk killed a kangaroo rat.
Insanity.