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Bush Administration Rushing to Exempt Big Poultry Producers from Reporting Emissions under Federal Laws
Available studies show that poultry producers in the top ten states emit hundreds of millions of pounds of ammonia a year - more than 8 times the amount released by all other industrial sources combined. Yet the Bush Administration is rushing to exempt these and other large livestock operations from having to report their emissions under federal right to know laws.
Dec 9, 2008
The links below include the Environmental Integrity Project's December 9, 2008, press release, our analysis of emissions from the poultry industry in the top ten states, and copies of site specific studies upon which emission estimates are based.
- Please click here for the press release.
- Please click here for EIP's analysis of emissions (Corrected December 2009).
- Please click here for the Indiana egg laying site study.
- Please click here for the Tyson's broiler study.
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