From the Washington Examiner:
Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency has its eyes on pollution from backyard barbecues.
The agency announced that it is funding a University of California project to limit emissions resulting in grease drippings with a special tray to catch them and a "catalytic" filtration system.
The $15,000 project has the "potential for global application," said the school.
The school said that the technology they will study with the EPA grant is intended to reduce air pollution and cut the health hazards to BBQ "pit masters" from propane-fueled cookers.
Charged with keeping America's air, water and soil clean, the EPA has been increasingly looking at homeowners, especially their use of pollution emitting tools like lawn mowers.
Good Lord - don't they have anything better to do with our tax dollars. The system they are looking at is active - there is an electric motor driving a fan. How much of a carbon load will this device create?
If our Representatives were really doing their job, they would ask each of these agencies to submit a line by line inventory of their budget so we could weed out these puff pieces and fund what is good solid basic science.
Same thing for Department of Homeland Security, Education, Energy, Transportation. That would be a good start.
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