Today, the National Pork Producers Council, American Farm Bureau Federation, US Poultry & Egg Association, and the United Egg Producers filed an intervenors’ brief in support of EPA in a Ninth Circuit ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

State permit lacks sufficient monitoring provisions to safeguard clean water Food & Water Watch mobilizes regular people to build political power to move bold and uncompromised solutions to the most ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin judge ruled Tuesday that state regulators can force factory farms to obtain permits before they discharge pollutants, ensuring protections continue to apply ...

(WLUK/AP) -- A state appeals court upheld a Calumet County judge's ruling that state regulators can force factory farms to obtain permits before they discharge pollutants. Calumet County Judge Carey ...

For the third time in two decades the Environmental Protection Agency appeared in federal Appellate Court this week to defend its admittedly flawed approach to regulating the billions of pounds of ...

USDA bans Mexican cattle imports after screwworm cases increase south of the border. (MemoryCatcher/Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel sided with the U.S. Environmental ...

Michaelyn Mankel is an Iowa organizer with the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch. She lives in Des Moines. Cancer rates are through the roof. Well over half our tested waterways are polluted.

WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts factory farms from having to publicly report ...

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge ruled Tuesday that state regulators can force factory farms to obtain permits before they discharge pollutants, ensuring protections continue to apply preemptively ...