pollution is good for you, really

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In 2007, Organic Bytes reported that the Bush Administration had eliminated

pollution laws that required factory farm pollutants to be monitored and

documented. In place of the old regulations, a new program was created that

invited factory farms, which are more specifically known as CAFOs (Concentrated

Animal Feeding Operations ), to monitor their own pollution and voluntarily

submit those reports to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Not

surprisingly, last week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

released

a

report indicating the new factory farm pollution policies aren't really working

very well. According to the report, the EPA " is responsible for regulating

CAFOs and requires CAFOs that discharge certain pollutants to obtain a

permit. " Yet according to the report, the EPA isn't effectively regulating

factory

farm pollution, because the agency currently has little data on how much and

what type of pollution these CAFOs are putting out. Even more embarrassing,

the EPA's data is so weak, they don't even know how many CAFOs there are.

Given

the fact that one of these factory farms can put out as much raw sewage as a

U.S. city, the GAO report suggests it might be a good if the EPA considered

restarting that whole monitoring and enforcing thing it used to do.

EPA and Bush Administration Finally Busted for Gutting Factory Farm

Pollution Laws _ http://gao.gov/ products/ GAO-08-944_

(http://gao.gov/ products/ GAO-08-944)

 

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