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 Stories About: agriculture AND industrial ag AND Muckraker AND politics AND regulation AND US EPA AND water pollution
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Ag Reflex
Factory farms let off the hook for water pollution, activists say |
Amanda Griscom Little |
30 Jun 2006 |
Muckraker |
| The Bush administration wants to let factory farms determine whether the animal excreta that oozes from their facilities into waterways should be regulated, environmentalists say -- and they argue that the plan, well, stinks. The cow factor. Photo: iStockphoto. Agriculture has long been a top source of water pollution in the U.S., but in the last two decades the scale of the problem h ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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