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EPA ends 20-year effort to set factory farm air emissions methods

Active; tracking the EPA's factory farm proceedings

For two decades, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tried to build a way to measure air pollution from large livestock farms. On October 30, 2026, it said the data it collected between 2005 and 2007 cannot support reliable national methods, and it stopped trying.

Updated 6 hours ago

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As EPA has been saying it's proceeding with this plan, it's been dismantling all of its own tools to regulate emissions.

from EPA ends 20-year effort to set factory farm air emissions methods · Updated 6 hours ago

No one's going to estimate anything. As EPA said in its press release, we're certainly not about to try to enforce the law.

from EPA ends 20-year effort to set factory farm air emissions methods · Updated 6 hours ago