Climate & Environmental Protection
After Long Delay, Groups Sue EPA for Response on Factory Farm Water Pollution Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to respond to a legal petition urging the agency to strengthen clean water rules governing factory farms has prompted a broad coalition of public interest…
Grist: Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?
Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons.
E&E News: Biden’s CEQ has a Stephen Miller problem
Former Trump administration aide Stephen Miller is on the minds of Biden White House staffers as they work to channel federal investments toward disadvantaged communities.
Wall Street Journal: In Clampdown on U.S. Methane Emissions, Belching Cattle Get a Pass
The Biden administration is taking aggressive steps to curb the energy industry’s methane emissions, tightening pipeline regulations and spending billions of dollars to clean up abandoned coal mines and other…
NPR: How dairy farmers are cashing in on California’s push for cleaner fuel
California is trying to cut greenhouse emissions from the state’s cars and trucks, and in a controversial twist, its efforts are putting cash in the pockets of dairy farms across…
The Guardian: California subsidies for dairy cows’ biogas are a lose-lose, campaigners say
A coalition of climate, environmental and animal welfare groups is calling for California to remove the huge subsidies provided to dairy farms to turn animal waste into a form of…
California regulators reject petition request to immediately initiate rulemaking to end credits for factory farm gas, despite adverse local pollution impacts
Sacramento, Calif. — Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Richard Corey unilaterally rejected a petition request from a coalition of environmental justice, animal protection, and community groups…
Civil Eats: Public Interest Groups Urge the EPA to Regulate Factory Farm Emissions
Since 2005, large-scale livestock operations have skirted air pollution laws under a deal with the second Bush administration. Now, advocates are petitioning the EPA to do its duty.
Inside Climate News: Groups Urge the EPA to Do Its Duty: Regulate Factory Farm Emissions
Advocacy organizations petition federal regulators to rescind a George W. Bush deal that shields industrial animal feeding operations from clean air laws.