Cow Methane Fines
I don’t know who measured this or how in the world it could be calculated on a computer model…but! According to the Environmental Protection Agency, cow belching is a bigger contributor to global warming than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants. Further, methane from the nation's 170 million cattle, sheep and pigs produces one-quarter of the methane released in the U.S. each year. Well, I don’t know how this would help but there was a proposed assessment of $175 for each dairy cow and $87.50 per head of beef cattle according to the Farm Bureau. I called Nick Peak from the Boise EPA office and asked him about this and here’s his response: “EPA is proposing a tax on cow emissions is how I can say it politically correctly and there is no such thing as a cow tax or any other tax on cows or farm animals. I can’t say it flatly enough, there’s no cow tax.”
