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Western lawmakers push back on EPA farm-dust regs

by Darren Goode - 09/27/10 8:01 PM ET

The lawmakers are questioning scientific studies that they say are “at best ambiguous in support of tightening the existing” particulate matter regulation.

Current EPA regulations “have been very difficult and expensive for industries in the Western part of the country to attain, including agricultural and other resource-based industries,” the lawmakers wrote. “The possibility of those same industries having to meet a standard that is twice as stringent causes us great concern, especially when a revision is not required by science.”

The lawmakers want EPA to maintain the current standard for farm dust to preserve economic stability.

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