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Source: Office of U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell (N.C.-8th), 2/17/12
We received good news regarding an Environmental Protection Agency petition that would have forever changed the way men and women in our region enjoy recreational outdoor sports, including hunting and fishing. The EPA has rejected the rather ridiculous request from a group seeking to regulate out of existence some of the fishing tackle and ammunition used by anglers, hunters and recreational shooters. We need to take every reasonable measure to protect the environment and keep people safe. But the tackle and buckshot—the likes of which have been in use for centuries—pose no threat to the environment. Anglers and hunters have served as great conservationists throughout our nation’s history. As a sportsman myself, I joined colleagues from both sides of the aisle in calling on the EPA to deny this ridiculous petition, and this week they did. At the urging of our bi-partisan group, the EPA has sided with science and the evidence of years and years of American outdoor tradition and rejected the attempt to regulate, literally to death, fishing tackle and sporting ammunition that has no harmful impact on the environment.
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