Steven Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com and a regular contributor to FoxNews.com, wrote a fabulous editorial slamming the environmentalists who are demanding Congress refuse to clarify the Superfund legislation to “exempt” manure. The basis for the discussion is the Superfund law, which, among other things, proposes multi-million dollar penalties for dumping industrial waste. The original law did not specifically exempt animal agriculture, and now a coalition of agriculture organizations is working to clarify the law so that manure is not considered industrial waste. The anti-agriculture environmental activists, however, want Superfund to apply to agriculture so they can haul farmers before the courts and let out-of-control judges apply the draconian, to quote Milloy, penalties to family farms.

The editorial is a stinging indictment of both the scientifically bereft anti-ag crowd and the inequities of the Superfund law. Read it and you’ll find a much better grasp of the argument.