EPA Seeks Public Input On CAFO Surveillance After Close Senate Vote

EPA appears to be opening its use of aerial monitoring of livestock operations for Clean Water Act (CWA) compliance to greater public scrutiny, a move that appears aimed at quelling concern over the practice after an attempt to ban it won majority Senate support but fell short of overcoming a 60-vote threshold during the recent Farm Bill debate. The agency's new approach appears likely to go some way toward satisfying Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE), the sponsor of the ban, who...