Daily Grist: EPA &FACTORY FARMS

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At 12:21 PM 7/19/07, you wrote:

>Swine By Us

>Court rules against green groups, lets factory farms off the hook

>

>Some 2,600 livestock companies are participating in a sweet deal from the

>U.S. EPA. In exchange for paying a minimal fee and agreeing to participate

>in an air-quality data-collection program, factory farms can basically be

>exempt from Clean Air Act requirements for 30 months. When the swap was

>announced in early 2005, environmentalists cried foul; green groups sued

>the EPA, claiming that the agency failed to follow rulemaking procedures.

>But this week, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the EPA, in

>effect allowing factory farms participating in the program to pollute and

>stink as much as they like without fear of litigation. " The EPA decided to

>give them blanket amnesty in the form of, 'You send us a check ... and

>we'll guarantee that no one will sue you,' " says David Bookbinder, senior

>attorney for the Sierra Club. Data collection began this summer; of the

>14,000 farms signed on to the compliance agreement, only 24 will actually

>be studied. The rest are happy as pigs in ... well, you know.

>

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>straight to the source: San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press, Henry

>C. Jackson, 18 Jul 2007

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>straight to the source: Forbes, Associated Press, Rick Callahan, 13 Jul 2007

>

>see also, in Grist: EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms

 

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