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Animal Ag News 12/18

Agwired

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed regulation that would revise wastewater discharge standards for facilities that process meat and poultry products. Many of these facilities are located near communities with environmental justice concerns that have bodies of water impaired by nutrient pollution.

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Should a Plan to Curb Meat Industry Water Pollution Consider the Business Costs?

Civil Eats

Advocates also highlighted the agency’s findings that the technology needed to reduce processing plants’ nutrient pollution is already available and being used successfully, resulting in pollution well below what the rules would require. She believes EPA “has grossly underestimated the costs to comply.”