GoKawiilEPA ends 20-year effort to develop air pollution monitoring for factory farms
The EPA announced it is terminating its long-running program to create methods for measuring air emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), effectively ending any path toward enforcing Clean Air Act rules on these facilities. The move follows a two-decade-old arrangement, the Air Consent Agreement, under which CAFOs were shielded from legal action while an industry-funded study on emissions measurement was supposed to be completed.