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A Big To-Doo-Doo
EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms |
Amanda Griscom Little |
24 Jan 2005 |
Muckraker |
| On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. Factory farms may be getting off easy, but not so the c ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Big Ag, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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