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Legislation on rural farm dust necessary
Posted: Thursday, January 5th Filed in: Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Kristi Noem sponsored and the House passed, with Democratic support, a bill to prohibit further regulation of rural dust by the EPA. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has introduced a similar bill in the Senate.
Do we need this type of legislation? You bet!
Obama has told his administration “to keep looking every single day for action we can take without Congress.”
He has created a blizzard of executive orders and rules throughout his bureaucracy. He is subverting the power of Congress.
The administration’s Secretary of Agriculture has denied there will be any more regulation of rural dust. But he’s not the head of the EPA.
The EPA is working on massive increases in many regulations. Any denial of intent to further regulate rural dust has little credibility.
Preemptive legislation in this area and in many others is necessary.
Even if Noem’s bill becomes law, will Obama abide by it? He’s not grounded in respect for Congress or the rule of law.
He has said that he doesn’t need congressional authority to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
Take him at his word!
JOHN D. WAGNER
Rapid City
