Two CWA decisions; more potential problems for CAFOs

September 23, 2021

Two recent decisions, one by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the other by EPA, highlight how the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) regulatory measures for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are subject to changes. These …

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EPA Releases Layer Air Emissions Factors “Draft” Report

August 26, 2021

EPA published “Development of Emissions Estimating Methodologies for Egg-laying Houses and Manure Sheds,” and a “Fact Sheet” with background information. The data EPA used for this report was collected between 2007 and 2010 under the National …

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Study claims layer air emissions cause 600 deaths a year

May 20, 2021

An article published on May 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled “Air quality-related health damages of food” concluded that air emissions from agricultural operations lead to thousands of U.S. …

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Senate EPW hearing, EPA budget

May 6, 2021

On April 28, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a hearing to discuss the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) discretionary funding request for Fiscal Year 2022. The discussion primarily focused on …

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Climate, carbon credits and layers; bad and good news

May 6, 2021

Many egg producers hearing talk about farmers being paid big money for carbon credits want to find a way to sell emissions reductions in these markets. Carbon credits are generated by reducing or mitigating their …

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