EPA ends 20-year effort to regulate air pollution from factory farms

The Environmental Protection Agency has abandoned its long-standing attempt to develop monitoring methods for air emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations under the Clean Air Act.

First covered Nov 3, 2026 · 1:55 AM PT · 1 article · no longer in the live window

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8d Inside Climate News EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Giant Livestock and Poultry Operations — The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms,…

Primary sources

epa.gov Report: Eleven Years After Agreement, EPA Has Not Developed Reliable Emission Estimation Methods to Determine Whether Animal Feeding Operations Comply With Clean Air Act and Other Statutes | US EPA

federalregister.gov Animal Feeding Operations Consent Agreement and Final Order

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Appeared in: 2026-11-03 (#13) · 2026-11-04 (#19)

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