Mid-South lawmakers vote to block the EPA from regulating ‘farm dust’
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Critics of the bill, including environmentalists at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said proponents of the measure were using misleading slogans to derail air pollution rules affecting coal-fired power plants, refineries, vehicles, manufacturing plants and mines because it is the size to the particulates, not their source, that is at issue.
The vote was 268-150, with Fincher, and U.S. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss., and Rick Crawford, R-Ark., voting for it. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., voted no.
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12/8/11
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