ACCORD SIGNALS INCREMENTAL STEP IN SECURING STRICTER CAFO MANDATES

A recent settlement between environmentalists and a large pork producer that requires hundreds of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to minimize polluted runoff signals modest progress in activists' protracted battle to secure stricter pollution controls for CAFOs, according to sources familiar with the pact. The pact is among the first in the nation to require CAFOs to implement additional environmental protection requirements, and activists may seek similar agreements in other areas such as the Chesapeake Bay, several environmentalists say. But...