ah, it was friday, must be time to slip in some rule changes..EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms

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EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms

 

On Friday, while inaugural revelers were still shaking off their

hangovers and tending to their square-dance-induced blisters, the

Bush EPA officially unveiled a deal whereby factory farms can get

more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act if they join a

voluntary program to measure their emissions. The feds, who say they

need the emissions data in order to develop a good enforcement

program, tout their collaborative plan as far better than slapping

factory farms with lawsuits one by one. Enviros say the strategy

stinks as bad as the huge piles of doo-doo that are emitting toxic

gases at factory farms around the country. Get a whiff of this one

in Muckraker -- today on the Grist Magazine website.

 

today in Grist: New deal lets factory farms off easy -- in Muckraker

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