Factory Farms Getting Sweetheart Deal from EPA

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Factory Farms Getting Sweetheart Deal from EPA

 

Something stinks, and it's not just the hundreds of thousands of tons

of excrement piling up in the nation's concentrated animal feeding

operations (CAFOs) -- or factory farms, to the uninitiated.

Documents reveal that agribusiness lobbyists and lawyers have been

working hand in hand with EPA officials to craft a program that lets

factory farms pay a fee -- critics call it a " pittance " -- to fund

monitoring of emissions from their smelly facilities, in exchange for

which they receive full immunity from lawsuits under the Clean Air

Act. An industry lawyer called it " a very cheap insurance policy "

for CAFOs. Critics say the EPA has slept with pigs and woken up in

.... well, read just what -- in Muckraker, today on the Grist Magazine

website.

 

today in Grist: Factory farms cut a deal with the EPA on air

emissions -- in Muckraker

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck051904.asp?source=muck>