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GRAND RAPIDS — Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same kind of environmental hazard.
But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is classifying milk as oil because it contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil.
The Hesperia farmer and others would be required to develop and implement spill prevention plans for milk storage tanks. The rules are set to take effect in November, though that date might be pushed back….
Gayle Miller, legislative director of Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, said agricultural pollution probably is the nation’s most severe chronic problem when it comes to water pollution.
“Milk is wholesome in a child’s body. It is devastating in a waterway,” Miller said. “The fact that it’s biodegradable is irrelevant if people die as a result of cryptosporidium, beaches close for E. coli and fish are killed.”
Repeat: This is not from The Onion.
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Jim Hlavac | 6.15.10 @ 11:39AM
And people wonder why I drink vodka? It's good for the environment! If I spill it it's just like water.
A.M. Mallett| 6.15.10 @ 3:50PM
If you spray milk on any high ranking EPA official, they will melt .. really.
Big Java| 6.15.10 @ 12:55PM
It's not from The Onion? Could have fooled me.
Dixie Pixie| 6.15.10 @ 1:23PM
Just a quick question.
What is worse, a multimillion gallon crude oil spill in the Gulf or a multimillion gallon milk spill?
Another question, where was the EPA in the Gulf Oil Spill cleanup. The only time the EPA shows up is to harass honest businessmen. The one thing the EPA never does is cleanup the environment. Why is that?
Warrior | 6.15.10 @ 2:34PM
Environemenalists were there to prevent the burning off of the oil and to impede the usage of chemical dispersants. Both of which could have helped to at least minimally lessen (we'll never know how much good it could have done) the damage. Of course we are leaving off the fact that they are drilling a mile below the ocean is because the environmentalists have made it so you can't get permit to drill in such "delicate" areas as ANWR.
Dixie Pixie| 6.15.10 @ 4:42PM
Greetings Warrior
You forgot about the EPA preventing Governor Jindal from building sand berms to stop the oil spill due to the EPA required Environmental Impact Studies not being completed. The concept of the EPA waiving the requirement just passed by everyone especially Obama.
The insanity that is the EPA is seldom more obvious.
gadien| 6.30.10 @ 5:45PM
The science behind sand berms says that it won't work.
The dispersant have proved not to work, at least in the ways they were being used. The specific dispersants that were baned were not only shown not to work, but cause respiratory problems in humans.
Other than collapsing the oil well, burning the oil off and skimming are the only thing people can do.
c. j. acworth| 6.15.10 @ 6:52PM
Someone should tell the Sierra Club that it's no use crying over spilled milk.
Ricky Shambles | 6.28.10 @ 12:55PM
The whole "milk = oil" absurdity, while a timely dig against Obama admin, is actually part of the EPA's SPCC Rule that was enacted under the Bush Administration in '02.
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