Concerns Over EPA Standards & Obama On Energy

Concerns Over EPA Standards & Obama On Energy

Concerns Over EPA Standards & Obama On Energy. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

101 members of the House have sent a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson expressing concerns about EPA’s potential revision to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Coarse Particulate Matter, more commonly known as dust. Washington Congressman Doc Hastings says the EPA needs to be reined in.

HASTINGS: EPA is far overstepping their bounds and our response to that again referring to the budget is to cut back dramatically on funding those programs that EPA uses in order to carry out dust control regulation. I think they’re far overstepping their bounds because EPA, and I think this an example of bureaucracy sitting back here, doesn’t understand what happens when you live in areas where there’s not a lot of rainfall, you get a lot of dust. There’s farming and when you farm you kick up dust.President Obama talked energy at Georgetown University Wednesday.  The President said - the United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity and security on a resource that will eventually run out.  To prepare, the President said he is releasing his Administrations’ Blueprint for A Secure Energy Future. The blueprint’s goal is to cut by one-third U.S. imports of oil, now said to be 11-million barrels a day.

Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.

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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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