The Hill reports: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson traveled to central California this week to meet with farmers and ranchers — a visit aimed in part at reassuring the industry that EPA isn’t out to get it. Jackson used a Wednesday op-ed in The Fresno Bee to address the agency’s work to tackle particulate emissions. She writes:
Open dialogue provides the insights we need to craft the most cost-effective protections of human health. It also helps dispel common myths, like the false claim that EPA is expanding regulation of dust from farms. We have made no decision to do so.The Clean Air Act mandates regular reviews of science on various pollutants, including coarse particulate matter. An independent panel is currently assessing that science, and at my direction EPA staff is meeting with farmers and ranchers about their concerns and the status of our review.
You ag producers should just relax, I'm sure you can believe her.
Just the same, an "independent panel" appointed by...who?
The operative phrase is "We have made no decision to do so." Hell, we know that. The question is are you going to?
Further, I wonder if you would do so running up to or during a Presidential election year?
I'm starting to smell a December 2012 surprise.
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