A quick search on the Internet reveals the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed roughly 2,800 new regulations since 2009, when the current administration took office
The EPA agreed, among other things, to promulgate a new national Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) rule to address pollution discharges from livestock and poultry farms.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued cease and desist administrative orders to two chicken broiler facilities in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for discharging chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Florida Cattlemen’s Association (FCA) filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s determination letter and final rule establishing numeric nutrient criteria (NNC) for Florida’s lakes, rivers, streams and springs.
“For Tyson, sustainability is extremely real. It is not just environmental management. Environmental management is only one piece of the pie,” commented Kevin Igli,
In a unanimous decision handed down yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exceeded its statutory authority in requiring concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to apply for Clean Water Act (CWA) permits if they “propose to” discharge.
A poultry industry representative told a House Agriculture Subcommittee that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should recognize the poultry industry’s tools and programs that are improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and across the nation.
