EPA: Enterprise Protection Agency

From the New York Times:

"E.P.A. Offers an Amnesty if Big Farms Are Monitored
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY Published: January 22, 2005

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would shield operators of large livestock operations from prosecution from air pollution violations if they participated in a new program to collect emissions data from their farms.
The information gathered from the participants would be used to determine which of the thousands of factory farms, known as animal feeding operations or A.F.O.'s, violate the Clean Air Act or other environmental laws."

Under the direction or at least the influence of the White House the EPA has once again failed to do it's job, just as it has so many times before. The current White House is there to help and protect the large enterprise or so called big business. Well it continues to do that well.

Now it is again weakening the protection of our already poorly protected air. Just visit any medium or large city and you can cut the air into chewable blocks of gunk. Now we are going to expand that to the factories called livestock operations in rural America. Big business paid for this when they made their donations to the re-election campaign. Now they get the value for their payment.

We should not be surprised. The current dubja regime is not interested in protecting our land and our resources for now and the future, just exploiting it as quickly as they can for their own personal gain. The pattern is familiar.

Please speak out against this. Join a activist group and let your voice be heard:
http://www.savebiogems.org/redford/ is a good group to join. You will be able to be heard together with the growing groundswell of voices that are saying enough is enough. The exploitation has to stop. There are better ways to do this. We do not need to destroy the earth to feed our need for wealth.