CAFO Odor in the Winds
As I discussed Tuesday, the EPA is ditching plans to regulate CAFO air emissions (Washington Post story). This disclosure comes on the same week that the PEW Commission is set to conduct a congressional briefing on the issue of the impact on public health of confined feeding operations. This report has the Ag industry nervous - they have already started criticizing it, even though the report has net been issued yet.
The briefing will be done tomorrow in DC at 10:am in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406. IT will be conducted by John Carlin, Chairman, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Executive-In-Residence, Kansas State Univ., former Archivist of the United States (1995-2005), former Governor of Kansas (1979-1987) and Bill Niman, cattle rancher, and founder of Niman Ranch.
