EPA Cracks Down on Key Ingredient of Bread

In a frenzy to inflict maximum tyranny before Obama leaves office, the EPA is now targeting bread:

The proposed regulation published Wednesday would make the emissions standards for industrial yeast makers much more strict. …

The cost of complying with the upgraded standards could be passed down to consumers. The yeast manufacturers must install a number of new monitoring technologies under the proposal to track the amount of hazardous pollutants that are being emitted to significantly control them. …

The agency calculated that the total annualized costs for meeting the proposed emission rules would be $172,000 per year. The estimated per-year compliance costs range from $16,000 to $109,000 per facility, which EPA brushed off as minimal.

The bureauweenies would feel differently if the cost came out of their budgets, instead of being dispersed throughout the general population, which is also forced to pay their salaries — though hopefully we will be paying fewer of them in the future.

BTW, the EPA is imposing this regulation because it “lost” a lawsuit to the Sierra Club. The EPA is complicit in these sweetheart suits. The lawsuits have been driving environmental law rather than the Legislative Branch, which would face retaliation from voters if it tried to inflict a hardcore enviroleftist agenda. Our freedom and our bank accounts are under assault by an Axis of Evil consisting of leftist activist nonprofits, leftist activist regulatory agencies, and our leftist activist courts.

On a tip from Jester.