If dust raised by a combine, a tractor running a rotovator, or 20 head of cattle running to the grain trough is "Pollution", wood burners gotta be next or close to it.
If y'all notice, no mention was made of cars on dusty backroads, heavy equipment on construction sites, or a kid sliding into second base.
It's a simple matter of targeting the regulation towards those "Outside" of voter dense areas, demonizing thier practices as "Harmfull", and taxing and regulating them into oblivion.
It sells to the Liberals, the radical green movement idiots, and the ignorant city folks who think food comes from a plastic container.
Fighting back is not easy. The EPA,USDA,and the rest have the resources of the taxpayers, and the accused are guilty until proven otherwise.
It ain't just city hall, it's EVERY city hall, and liberal Federal judges legislating from the Bench, against what is comparitively a handfull of Farmers.
Ag is much bigger than the woodburning equipment lobby however.
The regulations themselves are politically created with little to no sound scientific basis, absolutely zero consideration of cost effective mitigation, with the input from radical anti american global socialists such as Van jones, Caroyn Browner, and others deeply entrenched in the three letter agencys, politically funded studys, and many credentialed radical environmentalists.
And absoluteley ZERO consideration for the impact of the regulation on Agriculture or those that rely on Ag for thier eating hobby.
Enforcement and audits are also interesting. Most times the auditors have next to zero experience with Agriculture other than what they have been spoon fed by activist liberal professors, and as a rule, work off a check sheet of broad terminology as to wether or not compliance is practiced.
The Emphasis is on record keeping, and ease to which the auditors can access the specific documentation concerning compliance.
If a Farmer is as skilled as a Burocrats Secretary and talented at multimedia presentations with power point, they generally fare pretty well.
Auditors don't like getting thier shoes dirty, most urban citiots on Fed payroll welfare don't. The cost of the administrative needs to comply is ridiculous, as is the expectation presented. It is NOT the fault of the zombie auditors however, as they are simply doing what they are told, and as required.
Here's a few links I dug up, on just a few of the assaults on agriculture.
There are hundreds of them that are in contention however, and more each week as the Radicals exercise thier newly granted dictatorial authority through the clea air and water act.
Dust/source point pollution from sprayers.
http://www.michiganfarmbureau.com/farmnews/transform.php?xml=20090315/cover.xml
http://www.michiganfarmbureau.com/farmnews/transform.php?xml=20080430/deq.xml
Milk as deadly as oil
http://www.michiganfarmbureau.com/farmnews/transform.php?xml=20100615/cover.xml
If the Radical Globalists have the capacity to ban a farmer from plowing his field, you know darn well your stove is gonna be an easy target.
Citiot socialists have been conditioned to think as a herd, and most seem to think folks who burn wood for heat, are as backwards and ignorant as stupid Farmers that pollute the earth carelessly with spilled milk and stirred dust.
Heck, we often get the ignorant "Burning wood is pollution" snivelers right here in our own wood burning forum.
I might have gone political. Apologies.
It's kinda hard to seperate this sorta ecofascism from the politics of the current admin and the ignorant fools that support it.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
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