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Over Regulation All Across the Nation Blues
Mon, 30 May 2011 19:11:06 CDT
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is using a bit of humor in an attempt to get their concerns across about the Environmental Protection Agency's desire (at least at the staff level) to move ahead in making dust rules for everyone twice as stringent as they currently are. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said publically that her agency has no intention of doing this- but she has not stipped the process as of yet that continues to move closer to such regulation.
The humor the NCBA has come up with is in the form of a YouTube video- click on the play button in the video box below and and take a listen to the "Over Regulation All Across the Nation Blues."
Here's the NCBA's description of this video:
Can you believe the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate farm dust? No joke! We are talking about dust kicked up from cattle or dust stirred up by a rancher's pickup truck. U.S. Representative Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) introduced, with bipartisan support, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011 (H.R. 1633) that would block dust regulation by EPA in rural areas where state dust laws are in effect. Call your members of Congress today and ask them to stand firm for family farmers and ranchers by supporting this legislation.
Dust is a part of life in rural America. Cattle ranchers work hard to provide safe and nutritious food for this country and abroad. Finalizing a rule (expected in August) that would result in heavy fines for creating dust is unacceptable.
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