The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it has denied a petition by environmental groups to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations like factories under the Clean Air Act.
The EPA decision, posted in the Federal Register, answers a petition filed in 2009 by The Humane Society of the United States and other environmental groups.
The groups sought to bring concentrated animal feeding operations under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. The section requires stationary sources of air pollution to adopt the “best system” for reducing emissions. The groups said farms with a large number of animals harm human health, poison the environment and cause climate change.
So cow farts are responsible for all of the snow and bitterly cold temperatures in the midwest and east. Alrighty then.
Whatever would we do without HSUS and Sierra Club?
I may do my part to help Save The Planet™ by cooking up some steak for dinner this evening.
