"The EPA is trying to put itself in charge of regulating farms—an outstanding example of “mission creep” and bureaucratic overreach. Regulating agriculture is not the EPA’s job—we already have an Agriculture Department. The EPA’s approach would demand proof of exactly which farm produced every pound of corn, wheat, soy or cottonseed used by customers of those farms—a practical impossibility in the U.S. agricultural system.
There is a growing world-wide effort to establish the “bioeconomy,” an economy based on use of renewable raw materials to make the products that humans need, and to reduce and eventually eliminate dependence on fossil carbon. The aim is essential—the world will eventually run out of fossil carbon. Yet sound policy must be informed by sound science. The EPA’s treatment of biogenic carbon and fossil carbon as if they were identical is wrong at the most basic scientific level. America’s farmers and the consumers of what they produce would be collateral damage of the EPA’s misguided plans."
It is time for all Texans to say stop with the overreach and if necessary actively reject such regulations through all means available.
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