We are from the EPA and we are here to help you......
We are from the EPA and we are here to help you......
There is a much greater source of manure further upstream.
If they can pick on the Amish, just wait until they start on your backyard gardening plot!!!
The real problem with the Chesapeake Bay is
1. Over fishing
2.Over development too close to the Bay
3.Inadequate sewerage which periodically dumps thousands of tons of raw sewage into the Bay.
Continued useof septic systems too close to the Bay.
There are extant the following: "The Potomac River Compact", "The SusquehannahRiver Compact", and "The Chesapeake Bay Compact", all of which were negotiated and signed in the late 1970's. All of which have been ignored by the states of Maryland, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania.
There is something sinister about the government increasing its scrutiny on the Amish. I would want to see all the facts that support the assertions that the Amish are environmentally destructive. The EPA is far from trustworthy; plus we have a growing anti-Christian attitude in the current Administration.
Yeah. The Amish are certainly to blame for climate change. It is time that they get placed under the header: ‘suspected terrorists’, and detained, and fed only hamburgers.
That’ll teach them.
(which is my particular way of saying: I smell a rat)
The government hates the Amish because they are not dependent on any government service other than national defense. The way it should be.
Isn't it wonderful to know the Feds are focused on the flop from a few cows owned by the Amish instead of wasting their time with silly little things like millions of gallons of crude oil washing up on the Gulf coast. (must I really put a sarc tag here?!)
Scuttle butt has it that that the lily-livered congresscritters might well vote to let EPA reign supreme, albeit illegally, so that their cap & trade cripple America agenda could get implemented without they, themselves, being held accountable?
Does anyone know what the status of this bill is?
Doesn’t matter who you are, the government will find some way to get to you. The EPA is a major problem along with 90% of government run institutions that are nothing more then epic failures that eat tax payers money and are the cause of 90% of the problems in this country.
Locally we have issues with people who want to clean-up the bay. I live in Maryland, I’m about 1 miles off the Chesapeake Bay and I have a well & septic system. I pay a yearly fee (tax) on that septic system to help clean up the bay... anyone in MD that has a septic system pays this fee tax) including those in Cumberland, MD that are over 150 miles from the bay.
After they take care of the Amish cow problem, I wonder if they are going to do something about the countless millions of wild critters (from birds to panthers) that are also pooping where it can run off into the Chesapeake.
Somehow, I don’t think that cows are the problem.
Great. Now were going to see all of those pictures of brown pelicans covered with horse $#!t.
Actually, this is all the fault of the New York Times.
If they would get their subscription rate up then they would need even more tons of male bovine manure to satisfy their clientele.
These poor, agrarian farmers (yeah, I know that’s redundant, but I get extra points for the buzz words ) would then have a market for all those piles of manure which now have nothing to do but leach into the Chesapeake.
(Sorry, but I “misspoke”. It is not ALL the fault of the NYT. The Washington Post, ABC/NBC/ABC/CNN/MSNBC etc are also not buying their fair share of manure from these poor, under-exploited Amish farmers)
Let’s see, so now the EPA is worried about cow sh**, something that occurs naturally in nature, not to mention all of the deer, moose, bear, squirrel, rabbit, elk and any other animal sh** you can think of that washes daily into our water supply. What is wrong with the brains of liberals, is there some type of brain rot virus that affects only them?