Farms could be required to report emissions data the EPA says it doesn't need
Story Date: 3/12/2018

 

Source: NEWS  & TRIBUNE, 3/10/18

The EPA says it's useless. Farm advocates call it burdensome. But a court has ordered the data be reported anyway.
Come May 1, dairy, hog and poultry farmers may have to start reporting air emissions data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the EPA has said it neither needs nor wants. Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly and other lawmakers have introduced a bill to permanently exempt such farms from that reporting requirement.A court ruling set the deadline for animal feeding operations to report emissions of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide...

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