<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4470"><a style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4478" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/30/3617172/epa-cafos-lawsuit/"><br></a>Environmental groups like the Sierra Club are finally waking up to the climate change impacts of industrial animal agriculture.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4573"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4479"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4478" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/30/3617172/epa-cafos-lawsuit/"><br></a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4554"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4479"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4478" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/30/3617172/epa-cafos-lawsuit/">Groups Sue EPA Over Failure To Regulate Emissions From Factory Farms</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4618"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4479"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4613" style="" class="">Livestock make up a substantial percentage of global greenhouse gas
emissions, and a group of environmental and animal welfare groups have
had enough of what they say is inadequate Environmental Protection
Agency oversight on those emissions.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4614" style="" class=""><br></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4610" style="" class="">This week, a group of eight organizations, including the Humane
Society of the United States, Center for Food Safety and the Sierra
Club, <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4609" style="" class="" href="http://environmentalintegrity.org/archives/7147">filed two lawsuits</a> against the EPA for not doing enough to control emissions from large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs. One <a style="" class="" href="http://environmentalintegrity.org/archives/7147">lawsuit</a> deals with ammonia pollution, and the <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4651" style="" class="" href="http://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/HSUS-lawsuit-against-EPA1.pdf">other</a> addresses methane and other air pollutants. </div><span style="" class="" id="trigger-slidedown"></span>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4611" style="" class=""><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4615" style="" class="">The lawsuits say that the EPA hasn’t yet responded to petitions sent
in 2009 and 2011 by some of the groups asking the agency to regulate
emissions from CAFOs, a delay that one of the lawsuits calls
“unreasonable.” The lawsuit also states that, by refusing to respond to
the petitions, the EPA has continued with its business-as-usual approach
to CAFO emissions, instead of implementing meaningful changes. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4616" style="" class=""><br></div><div style="" class="" id="in-content-ad">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4612" style="" class="">“CAFOs degrade the environment,” the organizations write in the
lawsuit tackling methane and other air pollutants. “Their emissions
exacerbate climate change; impair air quality; lead to the formation of
haze, fine particulate matter, and ozone; and contribute to the
impairment of land and water resources, causing ‘dead zones’ in
waterways and acidification of soil and waters. CAFO air pollution is
nationally significant, noxious, and dangerous to public health and
welfare, wildlife, and the environment.”</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4617" style="" class="">For that reason, the groups say, the EPA needs to regulate the
emissions. The petitions called on the agency to classify CAFOs as
pollution sources under the Clean Air Act, and set emissions standards
for existing CAFOs. The lawsuits call on the agency to respond to those
petitions.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4470"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4474"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4553">Read the rest at: <span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4479"><a style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4478" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/30/3617172/epa-cafos-lawsuit/">Groups Sue EPA Over Failure To Regulate Emissions From Factory Farms</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4547"><br></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4389"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422806226342_4388">----
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