Re: Deal Lets Big Farms Skirt Pollution Fines


Old Salt card carrying Curmudgeon wrote:
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will let thousands of
> factory-style farms escape severe penalties for fouling the air and
> water with animal excrement in exchange for data to help curb future
> pollution.
>
> The Environmental Protection Agency has signed agreements with 2,681
> animal feeding operations in the egg, chicken, turkey, dairy and hog
> industries. They would be exempt from having to pay potential fines of
> up to $27,500 a day for violations either in the past or over the next
> four years.
>
> http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060131/D8FFBT9G0.html
>
> Bend over, Bush is doing it to us again.
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Yep and the little guy won't be able to sue the Big Bad Polluting
Factory Farm!

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