According to The Wall Street Journal:
"Two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that subjects dairy producers to the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure program, which was created in 1970 to prevent oil discharges in navigable waters or near shorelines. Naturally, it usually applies to oil and natural gas outfits. But the EPA has discovered that milk contains 'a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil,' as the agency put it in the Federal Register."
Putting aside whether or not the new EPA regulation is technically justified under the above-referenced program, I just wonder how the federal government proposes to to cut its $1.5 trillion deficit, and reduce the Nation's almost $14 trillion debt, while expanding regulation in this manner. And this concern doesn't even address the financial impact on business during a time of recession.
Congress should investigate, and consider reversing, this latest expansion of federal power.
Hey Mike-Where are you getting your ioftrmaoinn ? Same place you learned to spell cheepest I'll wager. Nuclear power is not the most efficient and certainly not the least expensive electricity producer! Without enormous taxpayer subsidies nuclear power is prohibitively expensive and extremely dangerous! Factor in the greenhouse gases, pollution and environmental degradation from the mining, processing and transportation of uranium [or other fuel] and factor in the multiple costs of reprocessing or storing the waste for 10,000 years! Unless you are willing to sign up your kids, grandkids and grand-grandkids for 1,000 generations to live next to or on top of the waste, keep your ridiculous nuclear fantasies to yourself! Google ifyoulovethisplanet.com if you want to inform yourself about the medical dangers of nuclear power and weapons. Wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and increasing efficiency are much more cost effective, safe and environmentally friendly- so get ready to get your wallet out pay for your pollution or switch to clean energy 'cause we're not going to take your crap anymore!
Posted by: Lungiswa | October 25, 2012 at 08:47 PM
John FrykmanI am in complete aeeermgnt. That's step one then someone needs to teach these big corporate CEO's some morels and remind them that they wouldnot be where they are without the little guy at the bottom. You can't build a tower without a foundation to support it. They buy politicians to get what they want. The politicians buy them to get re elected. And the only interest that ether of them have in the rest of us is our money and our vote. There all blinded by greed.
Posted by: Subhash | June 12, 2012 at 05:52 AM
just wonder how the administration offers to to cut its $1.5 billion deficit.
Posted by: Orange County Organic Farms | November 23, 2011 at 01:39 AM