Russ Karns of the Des Moines Register busted the false claims in
ad promoting Cain:
ANALYSIS: Any claims that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is going to regulate emissions from cows is inaccurate, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said during testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture on March 3.
“This myth was started in 2008 by a lobbyist and quickly de-bunked,” Jackson said.
Jackson said another mischaracterization is the claim that the EPA is attempting to expand regulation of dust from farms. “We have no plans to do so,” she said.
But the Clean Air Act approved by Congress mandates that the agency routinely review the science of pollutants, including dust.
The ad says that "over-regulation is killing the American farmer." In fact, Midwestern farmers, due to soaring commodity prices world-wide, are in the middle of an unprecedented wave of prosperity,* noted by Time Magazine in a recent article, Want to make more than a banker? Become a farmer!
At a time when the overall economy is limping along at an anemic growth rate of 1.9%, net farm income was up 27% last year and is expected to jump another 20% in 2011. Real estate prices in general are again falling this year. But according to the Federal Reserve, the average farm has doubled in value in the past six years.
*And here's an Omaha ad by a Midwestern bank which wants a piece of that bachelor farmer action:
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