EPA Says U.S. Rule on Farm Dust Won’t Be Tightened After Review
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it won’t tighten air-pollution controls on agriculture, construction or demolition work, after farmers and lawmakers complained that it was ready to outlaw farm dust.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a letter to Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, that she would propose keeping the current standard for particulate-matter pollution.