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The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) submits these comments on the proposed Consent Decree between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Seaboard Food LP (Seaboard) on behalf of eight undersigned organizations. In its Decree, EPA proposes to withdraw the air monitoring order that it issued to Seaboard in 2002 and absolve Seaboard of legal liability for violations of the Clean Air Act in exchange for participation in EPA's Air Compliance Agreement (ACO). Under the ACO, Seaboard may not ever test its air emissions, nor is the company required to comply with the Clean Air Act (CAA). Accordingly, the groups oppose this decree, because it is bad public policy to put a polluter's interests ahead of citizens' health and to allow companies to benefit from noncompliance.