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EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
businessandmedia.org - 1/6/2009
EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
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Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 1/5/2009 3:55:30 PM Send this page to a friend! (click here) Call this one of the newest and innovative ways your government has come up with to battle ...
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Environmental Protection Agency - The New York Times
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Help Green the White House with an Organic Farm
greenupgrader.com - 1/10/2009
Help Green the White House with an Organic Farm
— greenupgrader.com — Eat the View is a campaign to turn part of the White House’s 18 acre lawn back... into an edible landscape. The Garden of Eatin’ video tells the story of the “America’s Garden” from 1800 when President John Adams planted the ... (more) Help Green the White House with an Organic Farm

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ewg.org - 1/14/2009
Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination
— ewg.org — Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 WASHINGTON –- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate... contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another ... (more) Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate ...

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Green Daily:  EPA Considers a Cow Tax

Practical Environmentalist:  US states are moving towards a cap and trade system for CO2 emissions

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EPA Considers a Cow Tax
Green Daily — ... -- especially the burping ones -- are a considerable source of greenhouse emissions. Still, what do we want to do about it? Wipe out a few million head of cattle and call it a day? Well, the EPA is kicking around an idea of how to tackle the problem. It's a tax (what else? the EPA doesn't pride itself on creativity) that would charge farmers and ranchers ...

US states are moving towards a cap and trade system for CO2 emissions
Practical Environmentalist — ... . In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency is facing pressure to treat CO2 as a pollutant. The EPA recently published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to regulate agricultural emissions of greenhouse gas. ...

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