EPA wants to exempt factory farms from Clean Air Act rules
Bush Administration continues to roll back or ignore environmental laws
Eugene Register-Guard
Every day, the waste from tens of thousands of dairy cows at Threemile Canyon Farms in Boardman releases more than 15,000 pounds of ammonia into the atmosphere. The toxic emissions pose a potential health threat to people living and working nearby, and they contribute to haze and acid rain in the Columbia River Gorge.
As part of its tireless campaign to repeal, roll back and generally ignore settled environmental law, the Bush administration is proposing to drop the Environmental Protection Agency’s two-decade-old requirements that factory farms monitor and report their emissions of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from animal manure.
