Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement
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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…
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Date:
July 20, 2012
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
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