Environmentalists press EPA to regulate CAFOs

More than 200 local and national environmental and environmental justice (EJ) groups are calling on EPA to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) under several environmental statutes in order to protect vulnerable communities from a range of harms. In a July 19 letter , the groups urged EPA Administrator Michael Regan to end long-running regulatory exemptions for the facilities, noting that the agency is already weighing several rulemaking petitions under major environmental statutes that could provide the vehicle for such...