Where's the EPA When Our Water Is Full of Poop? - (blog)

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Where's the EPA When Our Water Is Full of Poop? - (blog)

NOTE: This is a guest post from Karen Steuer , director of the Reforming Industrial Animal Agriculture campaign at the Pew Environment Group . In previous posts , we have discussed how concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) can cause some serious water pollution in our nation’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay . But the states surrounding the bay are not alone in facing this issue. In Illinois, for example, water quality problems have caused real concern about that state’s regulation of the rapidly growing hog industry. Illinois is the fourth-largest hog-producing state in the country, raising about 4.5 million hogs annually. By 2008, 96 percent of the lakes assessed by the state were listed as “impaired” — and agriculture was cited as the primary cause. Illinois law allows massive hog production facilities within a quarter-mile of homes and a half-mile of towns...

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