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  EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
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News DateTuesday, January 6, 2009 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionCall this one of the newest and innovative ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions.



Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.



The New York Farm Bureau assigned a price tag to the cost of greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA in a release last month.



“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”

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