EPA: For the Love of God, We're Not Regulating Farm Dust

[Willinois]

My own Congressman has used this scare tactic in committee hearings.

Quote:For months now, the tea-party right and allies in Congress have been preoccupied with the myth that the Environmental Protection Agency is going to start imposing massive fines on farm dust. It's a conspiracy theory that Herman Cain repeated at one of the recent GOP debates. Unfortunately, it's not true, and the EPA said so again on Monday with a statement and a letter to Congress:

Particulate matter in the air we breathe can cause Americans to get sick, and can even cause premature death. For more than two decades, EPA has been working to reduce this pollution to improve our health while growing our economy. In progressing this work, some have raised the common myth that we are planning to tighten standards of dust from farms. EPA has repeatedly said that it has no plans to tighten this regulation.

[RoyGBiv]

That is all I have to say.

[Willinois]

Posted to Congressman Shimkus' page.

https://www.facebook.com/repshimkus/post...9303915538