EPA CAFO STUDY MAY INCLUDE CHICKEN FARMS AFTER TYSON JOINS PACT

Food giant Tyson Foods' participation in EPA's controversial clean air and Superfund consent decree may lead the agency's related study of farm sector emissions to focus on chicken farms because of the company's enormous holding in chicken farms. However, it is still not certain whether the agency has been able to win sufficient participation in the deal to study emissions from dairy and turkey farms, according to agency and industry sources. While the inclusion of pork producers and egg farmers...