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BoogyMan
02-07-2011, 08:40 PM
Joke? Doesn't seem to be....



Link (http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/02/03/epa-spilled-milk-regulation-indicative-of-broader-problem/)
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Two weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that subjects dairy producers to the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure program, which was created in 1970 to prevent oil discharges in navigable waters or near shorelines. Naturally, it usually applies to oil and natural gas outfits. But the EPA has discovered that milk contains “a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil,” as the agency put it in the Federal Register.

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