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House bars EPA from cracking down on farm dust
The Hill via Drudge ^ | 12/08/11 | Pete Kasperowicz and Elise Viebeck

Posted on 12/08/2011 4:55:54 PM PST by Gettin Betta

The House on Thursday approved legislation Republicans said was aimed at ensuring the EPA cannot regulate so-called "farm dust."

The House on Thursday afternoon approved legislation Republicans said was aimed at ensuring that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot regulate so-called "farm dust."

The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, H.R. 1633, which would prevent the EPA from issuing any new rule over the next year that regulates coarse particulate matter, or "nuisance dust," passed in a 268-150 vote.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epa; house
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I'm not a farmer but have been involved with dirt track auto racing most of my life. Had this passed, our sport for sure would have been effected down the road. Thank you GOP!
1 posted on 12/08/2011 4:56:02 PM PST by Gettin Betta
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To: Gettin Betta

Why only one year?


2 posted on 12/08/2011 4:57:32 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Gettin Betta

Senate won’t hear it, Obama will veto.

The INSANE Greens want us back to bear skins. Oh wait, PETA won’t let us to do that either!


3 posted on 12/08/2011 4:57:47 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: Gettin Betta

Finally! Some common sense from our Goobermint!


4 posted on 12/08/2011 5:00:02 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Gettin Betta

EPA is going to ban dust. EPA is going to declare rainfall a pollutant.

No rain, no dust. Ergo, no more mud by government fiat? I’m sure New Englanders will be happy to learn of this.


5 posted on 12/08/2011 5:01:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Gettin Betta

As others have noted, it’s only for one year. That’s on the House.

And it isn’t a law yet. That’s on the Senate.

Even if it got through the Senate, Obama would veto it.


6 posted on 12/08/2011 5:03:06 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: whitedog57

Don’t worry. The impossibility of life under this administration will not go unanswered. Obamacare will provide ‘comfort medication’ to the end. The Hippies have taken over.


7 posted on 12/08/2011 5:08:23 PM PST by Wildbill22
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To: Wildbill22

Neighbors to farms complain about this all the time. Dumb....it’s a farm!! You’re the one who choe to live there.


8 posted on 12/08/2011 5:10:49 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Gettin Betta

Well, your sport and all those that kick up dust are effected, because the EPA is going after cities like Phoenix. There is a message on the Phoenix Parks and Recreation line that cautions about dust. It states not to ride on vacant lots or even parking on them, or anyplace that would cause dust, because they could lose federal funds. Now, I’m thinking, “Hey! It’s Phoenix. It’s a dust city. They have freakin’ dust storms caused by nature.” The EPA needs to be eliminated.


9 posted on 12/08/2011 5:14:16 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Gettin Betta

The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, H.R. 1633

Who could imagine the Republic would descend to the point where it needs to write laws about not dust, but the prevention of laws about dust. Next the EPA will attempt to ban dust bunnies, cornflake dust, and cat dander.


10 posted on 12/08/2011 5:15:03 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: Wildbill22

The EPA isn’t about a clean environment any more, if it ever was. It’s a weapon of economic and social sabotage. Throwing sand in the gears of industry and agriculture isn’t just a side effect, it’s the end goal. The environment is just the excuse of the moment.

Get that through people’s heads, and the next shortage you’ll be dealing will be in tar and feathers.


11 posted on 12/08/2011 5:15:52 PM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: whitedog57
The INSANE Greens want us back to bear skins. Oh wait, PETA won’t let us to do that either!

Ergo, you have liberal lunatics in San Fran and such that want all humans to go NUDE - all natural - in the buff - fig-leafless!

Remember, to most liberal idiots, humans are all just WILD ANIMALS, trying to eek out life as we "evolve" into the next great being! I chuckled just thinking that this REALLY IS what a goodly portion believe! I apologize to the "idiots" of the world, for I am sure I offended them by comparison!
12 posted on 12/08/2011 5:20:55 PM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Gettin Betta

WOW!

Where I grew up the farmers always burned off corn stubble after the harvest. Lots o smoke you can bet. I wonder if they still do that. Barbaroo Boxer’s head would assplode if she knew that.

Just like in Scanners, bwahahahahaha.


13 posted on 12/08/2011 5:24:31 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: Gettin Betta

Just imagine how many children wouldn’t have to go to bed hungry every night if the Republicans would just defund the EPA. That money could buy a lot of food for the hungry kids.


14 posted on 12/08/2011 6:05:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop BIG Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: Gettin Betta

IMO, there’s more nusiance dust kicked up by travel on dirt roads than anything other than cultivation and harvest. All things being equal, I’ll bet the roads send up far more particulates over time. If so, what’re they going to do? Ban road travel?


15 posted on 12/08/2011 6:27:19 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Soon to be a man without a country.)
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To: Barak

Hey Fubo!

The EPA needs killin.


16 posted on 12/08/2011 6:33:24 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Gettin Betta

What they need to do is make a law that says that all regulations made by the EPA has to have Congressional approval.


17 posted on 12/08/2011 6:43:06 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Gettin Betta

DT racing is only one of a great many business/sports that would have been effected ! A lot of “small businesses” (and that’s most farmers, BTW), even rural municipalities with dirt roads would have been impacted. Hosts of other small businesses from landscapers, to small surface mines, to sawyards come readily to mind.

Worse, implementation of this measure could/would have been erratic being determined solely at the discretion of the EPA - or rather - its Director ! And that, I suspect, is the reason there was so much bi-partisan support !

Electees on both sides of the aisle are well aware of the Obama Administration’s record for appointing radicals, former terrorists, criminals, even avowed anti-american socialists to regulatory positions of power whence they’ve created economic chaos. One, Cass Sunstein, is a ticking bomb that, while presently out of the limelight, is working “under the radar” on a number of economic and social issues important to our society. >PS


18 posted on 12/08/2011 6:43:55 PM PST by PiperShade
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To: Gettin Betta

DT racing is only one of a great many business/sports that would have been effected ! A lot of “small businesses” (and that’s most farmers, BTW), even rural municipalities with dirt roads would have been impacted. Hosts of other small businesses from landscapers, to small surface mines, to sawyards come readily to mind.

Worse, implementation of this measure could/would have been erratic being determined solely at the discretion of the EPA - or rather - its Director ! And that, I suspect, is the reason there was so much bi-partisan support !

Electees on both sides of the aisle are well aware of the Obama Administration’s record for appointing radicals, former terrorists, criminals, even avowed anti-american socialists to regulatory positions of power whence they’ve created economic chaos. One, Cass Sunstein, is a ticking bomb that, while presently out of the limelight, is working “under the radar” on a number of economic and social issues important to our society. >PS


19 posted on 12/08/2011 6:44:27 PM PST by PiperShade
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To: Gettin Betta

Once upon a time I would assume that EPA could not regulate that which it had not been given the authority of congress to regulate. These days the EPA and Other departments literally are a congress in and of themselves. A congress of one official elected by communist president no less. This has just got to stop. Congress needs to reign them in and take back its power.


20 posted on 12/08/2011 6:54:05 PM PST by Revel
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