Effort is being driven by a legal appeal filed by the environmental groups after a US District Court rules the EPA narrowly defined reporting exemption under EPCRA for these substances is lawful.
Meat Institute report explores why emissions factors vary across beef, pork and poultry, highlighting how recent publicly available data for poultry remains limited.
Meat Institute analyzes scope 3 emission factors used today for beef, pork and poultry, highlighting how approaches differ across data sources, system boundaries and calculation methods.
Recent research at University of California, Davis, shows that feeding cows red seaweed can dramatically cut the amount of methane that is produced and released into the environment.
National Cattlemen's Beef Association and National Pork Producers Council and other livestock groups have been fighting activists over this issue since January 2009.
US District Court for the District of Columbia affirms protections for livestock farmers and ranchers from unnecessary air emissions reporting requirements.