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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 9:08am  
EPA steps out yet again to regulate everyday life: “We expect to limit the overall air pollution PM (particle matter) emissions from barbecuing and to alleviate some of the acute health hazards that a barbecue master can experience from inhalation.” 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 9:22am  
Removed By Request 4951
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Ebola Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 9:42am  
Obama's hope and change is turning out to be nope and can't. I hope the little millennial turds are happy for what they voted for. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 10:12am  
Yet again people just believe  whatever they want on the internet.    Why does this part get left out of every Obama-haters article on the EPA and BBq's"The EPA also said that it does not regulate
backyard barbecues. Research conducted by the University of California
Riverside is part of the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) program,
which is a student design competition for sustainability."OMG the government wants to fund research to help lessen air born pollutants.  Terrifying!It's a grant, a 15K grant to the University of California Riverside.EPA Grant Number: SU835698
“We expect to limit the
overall air pollution PM (particle matter) emissions from barbecuing and
to alleviate some of the acute health hazards that a barbecue master
can experience from inhalation.”
That is not from the EPA. It is from the expected results section of the research the Univ of California Riverside is doing.  Here is the link to the REST of the grants they awarded.P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 10:22am  
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. 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 10:23am  
As part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s current push to hand out $15,000 grants to anybody with a heavy hand, the University of California-Riverside will benefit from government backing to develop a way to reduce emissions from backyard barbecue grills.According to the agency’s grant summary, EPA will hand UC-Riverside the funds in order to “perform research and develop preventative technology that will reduce fine particulate emissions (PM2.5) from residential barbecues.” If the outcome of the research is scalable, it will indicate a “potential for global application.” 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 10:46am  
I am NO Obama fan, but these kind of articles are simply nonsense.This is ridiculous propaganda designed to rile people up over nothing. 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 11:12am  
I am NO Obama fan, but these kind of articles are simply nonsense.This is ridiculous propaganda designed to rile people up over nothing.
 
@ForeCPA90: Well it is just a grant for research.
But I do find it interesting that as a subject it even came up.Since industrial and commercial BBQ's have to have some particulate catch system, as I understand it, that pretty much leaves home BBQ's for the research.So that begs the question, why?Does home BBQ'ng create that much air pollution?And since both gas and charcoal are in the study, and it is related to oil vaporization (not charcoal emissions), what's next, pan frying in the house. Will residents need a particulate catch system in our vent hood?Or is the study there to create "awareness" for air pollution and global climate change to bend the will of the average american to the governments way of thinking?Sometimes it is not about the actual "thing", but more about assimilation. 
 
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 11:20am  

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>> I am NO Obama fan, but these kind of articles are simply nonsense.This is ridiculous propaganda designed to rile people up over nothing.
 
@ForeCPA90: Well it is just a grant for research.
But I do find it interesting that as a subject it even came up.Since industrial and commercial BBQ's have to have some particulate catch system, as I understand it, that pretty much leaves home BBQ's for the research.So that begs the question, why?Does home BBQ'ng create that much air pollution?And since both gas and charcoal are in the study, and it is related to oil vaporization (not charcoal emissions), what's next, pan frying in the house. Will residents need a particulate catch system in our vent hood?Or is the study there to create "awareness" for air pollution and global climate change to bend the will of the average american to the governments way of thinking?Sometimes it is not about the actual "thing", but more about assimilation. 
 
 
@FoFa: It is similar to the water metering device (where it claimed the EPA wants to monitor your hotel water).  College students are developing a school project, and if they can claim an environmental benefit, they can apply for a grant from the EPA to help fund the product.  They are developing something they hope to sell to grill manufacturers, just like the University of Tulsa students are hoping to develop a device to sell to hotels.  My main issue is not so much with anyone who has a problem with what is going on, its more the flat out false information that gets put out there to drive the point home.  This was a nominal grant to fund a student project, not a Presidential order to ban my back yard grilling.
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:18pm  
College students are developing a school project, and if they can claim an environmental benefit, they can apply for a grant from the EPA to help fund the product. 
 
@ForeCPA90: So should we, as a country, multi-trillion in debt, be funding projects such as this, or is it because the industry is not doing it because it is not cost effective. The only way a grill manufacturer would add something like that, would be if the government forced them to.
So either it is a waste of money to start with, or it is leading to something else we don't want/need. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:34pm  
I wonder if cavemen knew the uproar they would cause when they discovered fire and then started cooking with it. I think we should ban cavemen. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:40pm  
This would be typical for the federal government.  Add a little more control over our lives by "focusing" on one thing.  Once they control that one thing, then they use that to justify their control over other things.Does anyone actually think that backyard BBQs emit enough to affect global "anything"?!?  It was the same with the now postponed ban on M855 ammo.  If that ammo gets banned, then it's only a matter of time before ALL 5.56mm/.223 ammo gets banned.  And then one day, they will ban ALL rifle ammo.  The goal is to ban guns, but that hasn't worked.  The next best thing is to ban all ammo. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:46pm  
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.
 
@FoFa:  I'm sure the rest of the world will adopt whatever gets recommended (then mandated) here in the USA.  Emoticon
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:50pm  

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>> College students are developing a school project, and if they can claim an environmental benefit, they can apply for a grant from the EPA to help fund the product. 
 
@ForeCPA90: So should we, as a country, multi-trillion in debt, be funding projects such as this, or is it because the industry is not doing it because it is not cost effective. The only way a grill manufacturer would add something like that, would be if the government forced them to.
So either it is a waste of money to start with, or it is leading to something else we don't want/need.
 
@FoFa: I agree with you, I think it's a waste of money.  There are two ways a grill manufacturer would be add something like that, if consumers demanded it (unlikely unless it does not affect the cost at all), and the reason you stated.  I am not taking issue with your opinion, I am taking issue with the BS statements that the original article is making in order to rile people up who wont read though and find out the facts.
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~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 12:59pm  
This is Texas. Attempts to limit our guns or our BBQ will not end well for those with such stupid idea... 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Mar 23, '15 1:06pm  
Well the initial study is for California: BUT...Screen capture from THE EPA website 4951
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