Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement

Creator

  • Author: Copeland, Claudia
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy; Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2007-08-31

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: From an environmental quality standpoint, much of the interest in animal agriculture has focused on impacts on water resources, because animal waste, if not properly managed, can harm water quality through surface runoff, direct discharges, spills, and leaching into soil and groundwater. A more recent issue is the contribution of emissions from animal feeding operations (AFO), enterprises where animals are raised in confinement, to air pollution. AFOs can affect air quality through emissions of gases such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, hazardous air pollutants, and odor. These pollutants and compounds have a number of environmental and human health effects. This report reviews key issues associated with the Air Compliance Agreement.
  • Physical Description: 15 Pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Air quality
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Air pollution
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Agriculture

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: RL32947
  • Accession or Local Control No: RL32947_2007Aug31
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc810053
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