EPA FACES PRESSURE TO EXEMPT BEEF PROCESSORS FROM REPORTING RULES

EPA may grant a request from cattle processors and a key senator to issue a regulatory finding that the industry says would formally exempt the sector from having to report air emissions from animal waste. Industry officials hope to use the finding to avoid citizen suits that have already forced poultry and hog operations to report their emissions. Stephen Johnson, whom the Senate confirmed last week as EPA administrator, told Sen. John Thune (R-SD) April 13 that the agency is...