The agency instead pledged to study factory farm pollution, but the petitioners say its impacts are already well known.
, “water pollution is possible at virtually any point in a CAFO’s operation,” as waste from factory farms is generally not treated for disease-causing pathogens, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or heavy metals.
CFS said in a statement that factory farms “operate like sewerless cities” and can contaminate “drinking water with cancer-causing nitrates” as well as flooding homes with waste during storms and leaving communities without safe places for water recreation.in a 2020 brief, FWW found that pollution from factory farms “threatens or impairs over 14,000 miles of rivers and streams and more than 90,000 acres of lakes and ponds nationwide.
The 2017 petition called on the EPA to improve the CAFO permitting process, as fewer than one-third of the largest 21,000 factory farms have National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits, which regulate the point sources which discharge pollutants into waterways.
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