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EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Giant Livestock and Poultry Operations

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will suspend a 20-year effort to develop enforcement methods for factory farm air pollution monitoring. This decision effectively halts attempts to regulate potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act, ending a long-standing initiative to address emissions from large-scale livestock operations.

Key points

• The EPA will suspend efforts to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms.
• This decision effectively halts attempts to regulate potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act.

Context

The Environmental Protection Agency announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms, effectively shuttering the agency's stop-and-start attempts to regulate the potentially pollutant-spewing facilities under the Clean Air Act.

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Evidence is limited to the EPA's announcement of suspending a 20-year effort to develop enforcement methods for factory farm air pollution monitoring. No specific dates, locations, or named actors beyond the agency are provided. The decision does not specify the timeline for implementation or the scope of facilities affected.

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