EPA: BUTTERFAT IS OIL
Friday, July 2nd, 2010 -- 3:27 PM
A Wisconsin congressman is blasting new requirements that dairy farmers prepare oil spill prevention plans.U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) says the Environmental Protection Agency is considering butterfat in milk as a form of oil, and therefore wants to require farmers to complete oil response plans.
Kind says it?s an absurd requirement.
According to EPA regulations, farms with a storage capacity of at least 1,320 gallons of oil products would be required to put together a Spill, Prevention, Control and Countermeasure plan to guard against oil spills. Under the law, butterfat in milk is considered a form of oil.
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