Hunters, hold your fire — the Environmental Protection Agency won't regulate your bullets.
A federal appeals court denied a lawsuit Tuesday by environmental groups that the EPA must use the Toxic Substances Control Act regulate lead used in shells and cartridges.
"We agree with EPA that it lacks statutory authority to regulate the type of spent bullets and shot identified in the environmental groups’ petition," Judge David Tatel wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Environmental groups had sued the agency to do so, saying spent lead ammunition posed an "unreasonable risk of injury" to wildlife and humans who would eat the animals they kill. The groups rejected the EPA's assertion that it lacked the authority to do so.
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so these idiots are concerned that the hunters would eat lead out of the animals THEY killed? Here's a suggestion to those groups, and other groups, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I encounter a #6 shot in my rabbet or squirrel, I put it on the side of my plate and continue eating. When finished with the meal, I put it in trash which goes to the landfill where all the other lead paint refuse requlated by the EPA goes. Only an idiot would eat that shot, the broken bones, and the fur of the animal, but look for the EPA to regulate bones in food in the future. Unless we kill this Comunist agency, they will continue to take our rights in the name of protecting us from ourselves!
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