FB: EPA has no legal authority for ag dust
Air quality standards for agriculture are more and more a point of contention: From the Farm Bureau:
The American Farm Bureau Federation today told a circuit court of appeals that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the legal authority to regulate agricultural dust under the Clean Air Act. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument from AFBF and other parties both challenging and defending the EPA’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter in American Farm Bureau Federation et. al v. EPA.
Today’s proceedings are the final stage of a two-year legal battle over whether EPA’s NAAQS violated the Clean Air Act. AFBF argued that EPA’s own studies did not show that agricultural dust caused the adverse health effects that trigger Clean Air Act regulation.
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Labels: agricultural dust, Clean Air Act, EPA, Farm Bureau, FDA
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