Lame Duck Watch - Chicken Farmers Exempt From Pollution Rules

I don't agree. They shouldn't be exempt from telling how much pollutants they put out.

I figure bush knows he's a lame duck so what does he have to lose. He's already taken most of our rights as Americans away anyway. He sent our children off to die in a war justified by lies and deceit. What difference does it make what he signs today? The damage is done and my guess is he would rather be remembered for allowing chickens to poo than the poo he bestowed on the American people not to mention the rest of the world. But thank you I do care what he does in his final days because I'm not so sure he's finished dishing out the poo.

I think, considering the rediculous number and nature of environmental laws we have, allowing chickens to poo is not really going to hurt anything. This is just one of the rediclous laws the epa has managed to wedge in, now I even hear their consideing a methane tax on cattle farms? CRIPE! Come ON! I can't believe the world is still buying in to Al Gore's scam job. I'm not worried so much about Bush, though he's done a lot of damage already. I am more worried right now about more pressing issues, like Ohio's push for a new constitutional convention. I am worried about patriot act III, I am more worried about being labled a domestic terrorist, I am more worried about being able to travel freely with in my own country. Honestly I could care less about chicken shytte.

I think the "lame duck" in the White House should limp back to Texas and leave this country alone. He has made enough of a mess with everything. He is probably spending every minute left screwing up everything he can get his hands on just to rake revenge on the liberals and moderates of this country. Why doesn't he and Sarah take a long vacation in Alaska and take Cheney along with them. They could just "shoot up" everything that moves. I think the sooner Bush gets out of town the better for our country! Lame duck presidents shouldn't be allowed to sign such bills that would hamper the new President from making wise choices. It's just another dirty trick by the republicans to screw things up.

As a former city commisssioner in charge of the water and sewer department of our city, I had a few runins with the EPA. Some were stupid and some of their rules were needed. Maybe you know what a "fish kill" is? When contaminates get in the water and shut off the oxygen in the water it causes a fish kill. The rules of water testing is very important for the health of citizens to make sure that cholera epidemics won't wipe out the populace. Rules that farmer's hog, and cattle lots are a certain distance away from water wells. That water coming from sewer treatment plants is clean enough not to contaminate the streams where it ends up. So, the EPA is there for YOUR protection!

Oh gawd these last months have been the worst of this administration and the longest. I feel as if I have gotten a year older in the past month and we still have a month to go. I can't wait until he is gone! I keep picture him leaving and the White House in flames as he walks out.

well if he doesn't block it then the EPA will try to tax them like they are wanting to do the cattle for passing gas. Guess well have to stop eating chickens too.

I hope he is successful. The EPA is a government agency that is out of control. This is the agency that wants you to use CF bulbs, yet their own warnings state that if one breaks, the proper procedure is to remove the area of the carpet that is covered by the broken bulb and the dispose of it as hazardous waste, which is usually expensive. This is also the group that wants the emissions safe enough to drive a diesel truck inside a building while at the same time requiring that all vehicles operated indoors us LP Gas or be electric. Mean while as consumers we are paying higher prices for everything because of this ruling. They set an industry mpg average for the Car companies to achieve and once they reached it they changed the standard. They required the Oil Companies to develop different mixtures of Gasoline for different locations causing higher gas prices and even gas shortages with out reducing pollution. They were too dumb to realize that if you require a city to have one blend and the rest of the state to have a different blend that people would buy the gas where it was cheapest and not be concerned with the blend. Why not just have one blend for the Country instead of 46 different blends. We could reduce the cost of gasoline and make the country cleaner. I wish he would eliminate the agency before it destroys the country and has us over run with mice and rats by protecting them over man. If we follow the faulty science of the environmental groups we will kill man and return the world to the animals.

Well he could put chickens in extremely sterile cages and hired men and women to clean all the poop they make by putting them in plastic bags, but then they have to dispose of them. But of course, killing babies in the womb is not as serious as chickens doing their business as they have done for thousands of years. Oh have you noticed the odors when you drive by dairy farms and pulp mills? That is far more serious. Another case of Bush bashing. I will be waiting a few more years when the complaints about same gender couples getting more rights than traditional couples, when Christians complain that they are getting fired because they will not support gay parades, and when women will be afraid of take their children into washrooms because there might be a man dressed as a woman, but of course, you will ignore all those and think they are foolish because Obama the demigod is now president.