via Bear Claw as shared from Newsweek
A new EPA rule passed under President Joe Biden is likely to cost 317,000 Americans their jobs, trade groups are warning. Experts spoke with Newsweek about the pros and cons of the regulations.
Starting next year, the new EPA rules governing wastewater limits for meat and poultry processors go into effect. That means there will be more limited amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus released into the environment by the meat processing plants.
The new rules for August 2025 mean tougher regulations for meat processors, but many companies could go out of business due to the change in requirements.
The EPA originally passed the new regulations after 13 environmental organizations filed lawsuits and argued water pollution control standards needed to be updated for the meat processing industry under the Clean Water Act.
Meat prices have surged in recent years since the pandemic due to supply chain issues and inflation, and it's likely the prices could go even higher as the meat processing plants adapt to the new rules.
The EPA said through the new rules, the facilities will lower their wastewater by around 100 million pounds per year.
The regulations apply to processing plants that discharge wastewater into bodies of water as well as through water treatment plants.
The new rules also stipulated pretreatment standards for oil and grease for the first time, as well as for total suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand.
At least 16 facilities are anticipated to close due to the new standards. At the minimum, 17,000 jobs would be lost, but the EPA said up to 53 plants could close.
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, said while the EPA is not purposefully eliminating jobs and closing facilities, there will be severe impacts.
I worked in the meat industry for 40 years. This has happened more than you know. The big processing companies come up with rules that their smaller competitors can not afford in order to run them out. The end result is a consolidation of the industry that eliminates competitive pricing and drives up profits for the company at the expense of the consumer.
ReplyDeleteKinda like Walmart does.
Kinda like every medium to large business ever since the days of Standard Oil and the RR robber barons.
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I was a professional engineer for over 40 years and watched this happen over and over again. From underground storage tanks, landfills, college professors being paid by the EPA to make up garbage science and scumbag lawyer (redundant). You could not be more correct. And you guessed it every one of those rule changes were from democrats. But HW Bush and Nixon played a big part in this too both were state-ist republicans. The EPA and the ACOE are some of the stupidest people I ever met right up there with those with a law degree.
DeleteI am sure there are factories making pretend meat and the like more than ready to step in & help out.
ReplyDeleteA Tyson plant closed near us recently and I think it was because of their wastewater system. The upside is that the 200 Somali families that they imported to a town of 1800 have left to work elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that the town was saved from the 3rd world due to the largest employer shutting down.
Delete"Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, said while the EPA is not purposefully eliminating jobs and closing facilities, there will be severe impacts."
ReplyDeleteHow does he know their (real) purpose?
Are you paying attention? Did you just fall off the turnip truck??
DeleteEliminating jobs is a "feature" not a "bug."
DeleteRemember when the .gov told Americans they couldn't buy or make their own alcohol? Good times...
Congress should make it illegal to enact new regulation that takes effect after the next election. If Biden is going to screw over an industry, the industry should tank while Biden is in office.
ReplyDeleteAt this point in time...I don't care. Let the unelected government drones do their damage. Let them wreck havoc over any industry in this here ol' country. We need pain and suffering to get the sheeple to wake up. Wake those MFer's up to the fact that some goon is causing that pain. Wake them up to realize that those goons have been empowered by "do-gooder" politicians.
ReplyDeleteI think we can see, politicians only want power and prestige. My Gawd, if you can't see those things right now in this election cycle then, yeah, you deserve to hurt.
(coffee hasn't taken effect; but still don't care.)
Talk to Steve S, above...
DeleteYea..
DeleteIt would appear the EPA is quite proud of how many plants could close and jobs lost. Perhaps it's time the EPA suffered job loss for the benefit of the country.
ReplyDeleteIf you want lower food prices you need to import more savages.
DeleteWhat is a 'more limited amount'?
ReplyDeleteIs it an increase in limited amounts?
Is it that the number of limited amounts has become larger?
There are too many oxy morons running round here.
Is this still a requirement under the latest 'Chevron' ruling? I
ReplyDeleteGet your checkbook out, take'm to court and we will see!
Deletealso remember this little bit. food has always been the weapon of choice for tyrants all thought out history.
ReplyDeletecontrol the oil= control the country, CONTROL the food, CONTROL the people.
and they all about control. of everything. makes wonder if we going to see a 4 or 5 year plan here soon.
STARVATION! COMMUNISM'S NO.1 TOOL OF DEATH AND CONTROL!!!
ReplyDeleteThis will add a lot of un-licensed butcher shops...
ReplyDeleteSo the ptb have shut the neighborhood abattoir down for years and years likely at the the request of big outfits. (USDA) Now they(the do gooders?) (WHO?)are working to shutter the big outfits. I grew up processing lots of meats for the family at home (still do)and recommend everyone that can enlist locals to get their youth involved in learning the skill. Their future may depend on it.
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