United States-Carbon emissions.

UNITED STATES-SOME COMMON SENSE AT LAST OVER THE FARTING COWS.

Republican Sen. John Thune says he and Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York are introducing "anti-cow-tax" legislation in the U.S. Senate.

Thune says the measure, if passed, would exempt livestock from the Clean Air Act and would, in effect, eliminate the chance that cattle and other livestock will be taxed as a way to cut down on their alleged contribution to air pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency says fees would be imposed to compensate for methane and other greenhouse gases supposedly expelled by livestock. But Thune calls that "an overreach."

Thune said the Clean Air Act was designed to target smokestacks in industrial states and not farm and ranch livestock.

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