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I thought you were joking about dust then saw another post.

Well you are corret. The EPA has been regulating dust since 1987 and is now ‘tightening’ the regulations.

EPA on Tightening Dust regulations:
http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/phoenixpm/fuss.html

EPA on gravel roads and dust:
http://epa.gov/owow/NPS/gravelroads/sec4.pdf

EPA tightening 1987 dust regulations:
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=4385

Well you are corret. The EPA has been regulating dust since 1987 and is now ‘tightening’ the regulations. EPA on Tightening Dust regulations: http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/phoenixpm/fuss.html

That may be an old web page. It says "new regulation" but uses 1999 as a future date. It's not clear to me where Cain got his information.

Lisa Jackson, EPA head, is an enviro-koolaid drinker (but who in the Obama Regime isn't, and she may not be the worst.) She testified before congress in May 2011 LINK:"Another mischaracterization is the claim that EPA is attempting to expand regulation of dust from farms. We have no plans to do so, but let me be clear, the Clean Air Act passed by Congress mandates that the Agency routinely review the science of various pollutants, including Particulate Matter, which is directly responsible for heart attacks and premature deaths. EPA’s independent science panel is currently reviewing that science, and at my direction EPA staff is conducting meetings to engage with and listen to farmers and ranchers well before we even propose any rule."

Is she an honest Leftist, or a lying one like Obama himself? She says they have "no plans" to "expand" those regs.

LINK: Mike Johanns (R-Neb.): "Administrator Jackson said — and I'm using her words — has said that it's a 'myth' that the EPA is proposing to regulate farm dust,'" he said on the Senate floor. "But then her agency says 'No, we can't distinguish farm dust and other dust subject to regulation.'"

1) If we claim that the EPA will "tighten" dust regs in 2012 and they don't, does that reinforce the false claim that we are all ignorant yahoos?

2) The current "dust regs" are bad enough, and I am glad some members of congress are trying to reform them. Should we trust the EPA to do the right thing? Hell no. If you show me an example of dust pollution so bad that people can't breathe, do we really need and EPA for that, or is there some other law which would apply?

3) I would be happy if we could replace the EPA with a new agency that concerned itself with real pollution (like the toxic stuff that used to come from big smokestacks in the 1970s and fell on residential neightborhoods), but I don't want to put too much faith in human nature. Many voters say they want jobs but vote for those who destroy them.