ApocaDocs: Bill to ban phantom EPA dust rule approved by House panel

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Posted Fri Nov 4 2011: from Washington Post:


	Bill to ban phantom EPA dust rule approved by House panel http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1320366618 Earlier this year, Republicans found what they saw as an ideal talking point to illustrate a federal bureaucracy gone batty. The Environmental Protection Agency, they warned, was trying to regulate something only God could control: the dust in the wind. "Now, here comes my favorite of the crazy regulatory acts. The EPA is now proposing rules to regulate dust," Rep. John Carter (R-Tex.) said on the House floor. He said Texas is full of dusty roads: "The EPA is now saying you can be fined for driving home every night on your gravel road." There was just one flaw in this argument: It was not true. The EPA's new dust rule did not exist. It never did.

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'Doc Michael says:

Don't cha just love those quixotic Republicans!