Recent Developments in the Quantification and Regulation of Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations.

摘要: Animal feeding operations (AFOs) emit various air pollutants, including ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, methane, and nitrous oxide. Several of these pollutants are regulated under federal clean statutes, yet AFOs have largely escaped regulation laws because challenges in accurately estimating the rate quantity emissions from types livestock operations. Recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to collect data, develop an model capable at nationwide, establish methodologies for certain key suffered design flaws omitted concern. Moreover, this process seems stalled, delaying other regulatory reforms needed increase transparency facilities. Until EPA establishes methodologies, significant AFO pollution Clean Air Act or reporting statutes will be very difficult achieve, public health environmental impacts continue unabated.