CA: New clean-air rules loom for farmers (San Joaquin Valley)

Sac Bee ^ | 2/12/03 | Lesli A. Maxwell

[NormsRevenge]

As pressure mounts on state and federal officials to clean the San Joaquin Valley's dirty air, agricultural lobbyists are reluctantly writing legislation that would subject California farms to more pollution rules.

The proposal, still in draft form, calls for tightening a decades-old state law that has shielded the $27 billion agriculture industry from air emissions rules imposed on other large industries, such as oil refineries and glass manufacturers.

[NormsRevenge]

More B.S.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[farmfriend]

ping

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Lets make it illegal for any enviralist or left wing lunatic to eat any farm food. They can only eat what they grow or get by picking Poison Oak Leafs.

When they all starve in 6 to 8 weeks, there will be less global warming and pollution from all of vapors released by these worthless clymers.

The Watermelons want to stop all food production in California, Oregon and Washington under the guise of clean air, clean water and other enviral whacko schemes.

[Grampa Dave]

How much dirty air was created last year due to the out of control forest fires due to the agendas of the enviral whackos?

[EBUCK]

Brent Newell, a lawyer with the San Francisco-based Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

IOW, he's the devil incarnate whenever businesses are concerned.

[Carry_Okie]

Lloyd Bensten (Clinton's former Secretary of Treasury) is leading a consortium of investors that has plunked down $2 BILLION in Mexican agriculture. I would little doubt that supporting the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment is part of that investment package.

Putting Central Valley farmers out of business and opening that land to development fits the program precisely.

[Poohbah]

The pollution problem would be mostly solved if we simply took a free-market approach to things...and ended subsidized water delivery in the San Joaquin Valley.

[EBUCK]

I think that there is more to this than just pollution as Carry hinted to.

Developable property is getting scarce.....and developers have targeted farms for years.

[Carry_Okie]

The pollution problem would be mostly solved if we simply took a free-market approach to things...and ended subsidized water delivery in the San Joaquin Valley.

One needs a reliable way to measure and verify performance to contract without invoking bureaucratic police power. Here is just such a system.