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AFBF Backs Efforts to Stop GHG Permit Requirements

Stallman wants action from Congress to block these regulations.

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Published: Apr 1, 2010

The American Farm Bureau Federation believes that now is the time for Congress to nullify greenhouse gas permit requirements that were announced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The nation's largest general farm organization says efforts underway in Congress and legal challenges undertaken by state governments are offering corrective paths to undo a very real disaster headed toward farm and ranch families.

AFBF President Bob Stallman says Farm Bureau strongly backs a Senate resolution to disapprove of EPA's greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act and a companion measure in the House. Stallman also welcomed legal challenges from many state government officials who have stepped forward to express their valid objection.

"We believe the EPA's greenhouse gas requirements will lead to costly and ineffective regulations on America's farmers and ranchers," Stallman said. "We vehemently oppose regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act because we believe it will require livestock producers and other agricultural operations to obtain costly and time-consuming permits as conditions to continue farming."

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