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- Animal farms volunteer to reduce air pollution; Some claim move will relax environmental standards.(News)
- Byline: Jim Johnson Certain animal farms will start voluntarily taking part in a nationwide air emission monitoring study as part of a larger plan to address farm pollution. These large farms, known as confined animal feeding...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Court: farm manure rules fail to protect water.(News & Views)
- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said it agreed with environmentalists, who claimed in lawsuits that the rules failed to provide meaningful review of plans developed by the farms to limit the pollution. The court said the rules imposed in February 2003 by the...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- The manure hits the land: economic and environmental implications when land application of nutrients is constrained
- Agricultural production in the United States annually discharges large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into area ground and surface waters. These nutrients from crop and animal production are found in 50% of impaired lakes and 20% of impaired rivers in the United States (Environmental Protection Agency 2002a). Current production of...
- Research articles 2004-08-01
- LETTER: Happy hogs
- Sir: Claims that our farms in the US have been an environmental catastrophe are not true ("US pig farmer raises almighty stink with invasion of Poland's countryside", 18 November). The majority of our hog farms in North Carolina are located in the Black River basin, the river that the North...
- Research articles 2003-12-10
- Croton, Ohio-Based Farm's Environmental Violations Are among Worst in Country.
- Dayton Daily News, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 4--Robert Bear and his wife Rosella used to host the Bear family reunion each summer. But that was before the Buckeye Egg Farm cranked up its operation across the road from his Wyandot County...
- Research articles 2002-12-04
- Conservation Policy for the Future: What Lessons Have We Learned from Watershed Planning and Research.(Statistical Data Included)
- ABSTRACT: In the last ten years, watershed planning has become a focal point of soil and water conservation policy in the United States (Naiman 1992; Euphrat and Warkentin 1994; Adler 1995). To proponents, the watershed and the movement of water across and through its landscape and...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- Public Policies and Private Decisions: Their Impacts on Lake Erie Water Quality and Farm Economy.
- ABSTRACT Since the early 1970s, pollution abatement efforts have recognized nonpoint sources and, particularly, agriculture, as major causes of pollution in the Lake Erie region. The first objective of this research is to summarize federal and state agricultural pollution abatement programs that encouraged farmers to adopt...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- Ohio EPA seeks comments on application from Beaver Creek Dairy for new farm.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 February 2000-OHIO EPA: Ohio EPA seeks comments on application from Beaver Creek Dairy for new farm C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17022000 Ohio EPA has received an application from Beaver Creek Dairy of Stephenville, Texas, for a new dairy farm...
- Research articles 2000-02-18
- In the past; Farm groups like new gov't air deal.
- Byline: Jim Johnson America's farms can avoid lawsuits for past Clean Air Act violations caused by animal wastes under a new consent agreement with the federal government. Operators of the farms, often called either Confined Animal...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- Unsafe sewage sludge or beneficial biosolids?: Liability, planning, and management issues regarding the land application of sewage treatment residuals
- Commentators have identified fear of liability as a major deterrent to the widespread land application of sewage sludge. Liability issues regarding land application include not only legal liability, but also market liability as a result of negative public perceptions of the land application of sewage sludge. Under current law, municipal...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- What we know about historical trends in firm location decisions and regional shifts: policy issues for an industrializing animal sector
- The U.S. animal production and marketing system is undergoing significant structural change. This transformation has been underway for more than four decades, but it recently has accelerated. Farm structure is evolving from many dispersed crop-livestock operations to fewer, larger firms specializing in production of dairy, poultry, or hogs. Increasingly, producers...
- Research articles 1995-12-01
- Groups try to halt CAFO plan.(News)
- Byline: Jim Johnson Four groups are trying to derail the current federal plans to regulate animal farm waste, claiming the approach amounts to a sweetheart deal for large farms. The groups - including the Sierra Club...
- Research articles 2005-06-06
- Farms must adjust to new rules.(Special Report)(Brief Article)
- Byline: Jim Johnson Big waste management changes await thousands of America's largest animal farmers. New rules governing so-called concentrated animal feeding operations - or CAFOs - will cause an estimated 11,000 additional large farm ...
- Research articles 2003-09-29
- Hog producer agrees to EPA waste controls.(Premium Standard Farms Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Kansas City, Mo. - An agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will force the nation's second-largest hog producer to reduce harmful air pollutants and prevent animal waste spills at the company's large-scale farms. Premium Sta Kansas City,...
- Research articles 2001-12-10
- More U.S. farms subject to rules; EPA regs cover manure, wastewater.(Cover Story)
- Thousands of large livestock farms - collectively producing millions of tons of animal waste per year - face new Clean Water Act pollution control rules that will cost more than $300 million per year. These new regulations covering so-called C ...
- Research articles 2002-12-23
- Farms to meet air standards.(California)(Brief Article)
- California's farming industry must now conform to Clean Air Act standards or the state risks losing millions of dollars in federal aid. California has exempted its farms from meeting Clean Air Act guidelines, but agreed to the change after th ...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
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- EPA Recognizes Esurance Among Nation's Leading Green Power Purchasers
- AUTO INSURER REDUCES CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH INVESTMENTS IN WIND ENERGY SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Esurance, the direct to consumer auto insurance company, announced its induction into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EPA Green Power Leadership Club. With the recent purchase of nearly 4 million kilowatt-hours...
- Articles 2008-10-07
- Sterling-Rice Group Offsets 100 Percent of its Electricity Use and Travel-Related Emissions with Commitment to Renewable Wind Energy
- BOULDER, Colo. -- Sterling-Rice Group, a Boulder, Colo.-based brand-building and marketing communications firm, today announced it has purchased 339,300 kilowatt hours kWh of renewable energy credits RECs generated by wind farms across America. It has also made a company-wide commitment to offset its emissions produced from business travel. Sterling-Rice Group's...
- Articles 2008-06-10
- Polyamide 6 grades are claimed to meet new gas-permeation rules: manufacturers of gas-powered vehicles and power tools are under pressure to develop fuel-delivery systems and even portable fuel containers that meet stringent federal and state hydrocarbon-emission standards
- In North America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the California Air Resources Board CARB both have mandated low permeation rates for the fuel tanks of almost every device powered by a gasoline engine. In Europe, fluorination, a key technique for permeation control in fuel tanks, is being phased...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- North Branch leads New Hampshire's 'green' wave
- What do the Gold Level LEED-certified Dartmouth College McLane and Fahey Hall dormitories, Silver Level LEED-certified Portsmouth Public Library and environmentally friendly new plant office building for Stonyfield Farm have in common? They are all built "green" by North Branch Construction Inc. North Branch was building green long before...
- Articles 2008-04-25
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