WASHINGTON — Today, conservation and community groups appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts factory farms from their duty to make ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

But that so many people who speak out against factory farm pollution find themselves in crosshairs — figuratively but sometimes quite literally — shows how far the industry is willing to go to ...

Last month, Gov. Wes Moore signed a new executive order creating a “whole of government” approach to environmental justice in order to address pollution in disproportionately exposed communities. With ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

USDA bans Mexican cattle imports after screwworm cases increase south of the border. (MemoryCatcher/Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel sided with the U.S. Environmental ...

Late last year, the Oregon Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality proposed the long-overdue renewal of a permit that regulates how hundreds of the state’s factory farms manage their ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late last year, the Oregon Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality proposed the long-overdue renewal of a permit that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ana Maria Rodriguez shows the results of a nitrate test on a water sample brought from Umatilla County to the state Capitol in ...