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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Farm Bureau supports
Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s effort to restrict the Environmental Protection
Agency from regulating greenhouse gases. Last week the senator from
Arkansas, who is chairwoman of the Senate Ag Committee, created a
bipartisan effort when she joined Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s call
to stop the EPA from using the Clean Air Act as a tool for greenhouse
gas regulation.
“Arkansas Farm Bureau is pleased that Sen. Lincoln is
joining Sen. Murkowski in this effort,” said Arkansas Farm Bureau
President Randy Veach. “It speaks volumes that the chair of the Senate
Agriculture Committee is concerned enough to create a bipartisan effort
to stop unneeded federal regulation that would make it more difficult
and costly for farmers and ranchers to continue providing affordable
food to Americans and the rest of the world.”
Last week, Lincoln said she was very concerned about the
burden that EPA regulation of carbon could put on the economy and
questioned the environmental benefit of such heavy-handed EPA
regulation.
Lincoln offers an alternative to regulation.
“We can make immediate gains to reduce carbon emissions by
sending the President bipartisan clean energy legislation produced by
the Senate Energy Committee,” Lincoln said. “This legislation, coupled
with energy tax incentives, will reduce our dependence on foreign oil
and incentivize renewable energy, all while improving the environment
and creating much-needed jobs.”
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