EPA ends effort to regulate air pollution from large livestock and poultry operations
The agency is halting a decades-long program to develop monitoring methods for factory farm emissions, effectively abandoning regulation.
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- MotherjonesTrump’s EPA Will Abandon Efforts to Limit Air Pollution From Factory Farms