Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) announced today that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to exempt dairy farmers from provisions of the Clean Water Act that, since 1970, have required them to develop and implement plans to handle a milk spill – the same provision that requires oil companies to develop plans to deal with oil spills.
(Previously, the EPA had claimed this authority to require such spill prevention plans because milk contains animal fat – an oil.)