October 8, 2020
EPA reached an agreement this week with the owners of a New Orleans horse racing facility to settle claims that it violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) by discharging animal wastes and process wastewater into …
September 24, 2020
EPA recently reestablished the Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC), a federal advisory body that provides counsel and advice to the EPA Administrator on agricultural and rural matters. The FRRCC has 30 members from …
September 10, 2020
Several agriculture groups, including the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association on behalf of itself and the other poultry associations, including UEP, filed a motion to be able to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule …
August 27, 2020
U.S. EPA has taken a significant step to issuing air emissions estimation methodologies (emissions factors) for animal agriculture using the 2007-2010 National Air Emissions Monitoring Study (NAEMS) data. Animal agriculture groups, including the American Egg …
June 25, 2020
Environmental legal challenges continue regarding the current exclusion of ag operations from the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting requirements. The exclusion eliminates the need for egg and animal feeding operations to report …
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