For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law, says the Associated Press (AP).
The executive vice president of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Ken Hamilton, estimated the fee would cost owners of a modest-sized cattle ranch $30,000 to $40,000 a year; he said he has talked to a number of livestock owners about the proposals, and all have said if the fees were carried out, it would bankrupt them.EPA spokesman Nick Butterfield said the fee was proposed for farms with livestock operations that now* fall under federal Clean Air Act provisions.
[the harm bad judicial appoints can cause]
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Switch to 'green' inhalers costly
WASHINGTON -- Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" Dec. 31, forcing patients using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch.
"There's still significant confusion," said Dr. Harvey Leo of the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. "Patients will tell you, 'I don't feel the puff anymore.'
[oh c'mon, what's your health compared to saving mother earth...]
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