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 Stories About: agriculture AND legislation AND Mississippi River AND politics AND US EPA AND water pollution
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Clean water jacked
While industrial agriculture fouls the Mississippi, the EPA cowers in the corner |
Tom Philpott |
18 Oct 2007 |
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| Industrial agriculture thrives on its ability to skulk away from -- or, to use economist's argot, "externalize" -- the costs of its considerable ecological messes. Often, it does so with the tacit approval of the federal government, in direct violation of federal law. In Iowa, for example, the state's 2,100 CAFOs (confined-animal feedlot operations) regularly violate the Clean Water Act by failing to adequately dispose of the 50 million tons of waste they p ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, legislation, Mississippi River, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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