EPA wants to regulate farm dust

[MicroPilot]

Federal court upholds EPA's rural dust rule - NYTimes.com

Anyone know anything more about this? I tried Googling but could only really find similar news articles to the one linked here.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

The actual decision says,

Because the agency promulgated standards for fine particulate matter that were, in several respects, contrary to law and unsupported by adequately reasoned decisionmaking, we grant the petitions for review in part and remand those standards to the agency for further proceedings. We deny the petitions for review of the agency standards for coarse particulate matter because those standards are not arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise contrary to law.

So the Court says the rules for fine particles, basically smoke, aren't good enough. The rules for coarser particles, which we kick up behind our tractors, are OK. Here's the proposed rule; the critical part, as I see it, is

The proposed standard would exclude any ambient mix of PM10-2.5 where the majority of coarse particles are rural windblown dust and soils and PM generated by agricultural and mining sources. Evidence to date does not support a national air quality standard for these kinds of situations.

As I understand the current situation, the explicit reference to agricultural and mining operations is gone, but the rest remains. There's a lot of bad information out there on the Web, that's for sure. I'm not planning to worry about it, until the EPA comes up with a way to mandate rainfall.

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on this stuff. When the experts get done, then they tell me what they want, and I can get to work.

 

[Brimstone10x]

DEFUND THE EPA !!

 

[schmism]

DEFUND THE EPA !!

ummmmmmmm i Kinda like my drinking water drinkable :confused2:

 

[rswyan]

ummmmmmmm i Kinda like my drinking water drinkable :confused2:

Yes ....... two words:

Love Canal

.... jus' sayin' ....

 

[forgeblast]

wonder if people will go back to spreading oil on the road to keep the dust down? (scarcasm button engage).

 

[jbooth]

Lord knows we need environment protection, but they seem to delight in going after the little guys that don't have the organized battalions of lawyers like the corporations. Some time back they tried to make a rule here in KS. that the cattle could no longer swim in the ponds. Seems the ornery critters were going to the bathroom in the ponds. Wanted to fence the ponds and put a tank below the dams. Never did figure how it was better for the cow poo to get into the water shed from the pond than from behind the pond. Everybody offered to put up no swimming signs but that plan was scrapped as it was decided it would be to expensive to teach the cattle to read.

For you Texas guys; Our earthern stuctures in KS. are ponds, those galvanized round deals are tanks.

 

[Chuck52]

wonder if people will go back to spreading oil on the road to keep the dust down? (scarcasm button engage).

Could happen. Don't worry about the water, however, just drink Brawndo!

Chuck

 

[clemsonfor]

wonder if people will go back to spreading oil on the road to keep the dust down? (scarcasm button engage).

Some places the county still does this.

 

[clemsonfor]

Lord knows we need environment protection, but they seem to delight in going after the little guys that don't have the organized battalions of lawyers like the corporations. Some time back they tried to make a rule here in KS. that the cattle could no longer swim in the ponds. Seems the ornery critters were going to the bathroom in the ponds. Wanted to fence the ponds and put a tank below the dams. Never did figure how it was better for the cow poo to get into the water shed from the pond than from behind the pond. Everybody offered to put up no swimming signs but that plan was scrapped as it was decided it would be to expensive to teach the cattle to read.

For you Texas guys; Our earthern stuctures in KS. are ponds, those galvanized round deals are tanks.

Or how its any different for the cow to poop on the new fence line and it rain that day and carry all the nasties into the water anyhow? :confused2: