Minggu, 12 Juli 2009

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps

WASHINGTON – One contributor to global warming — bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants — is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Cow burps.

Belching from the nation ‘ s 170 million stock, sheep and pigs produces about one – field of the methane released in the U. S. each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That makes the hoofed critters the largest source of the heat – trapping gas.

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