Pork producers applaud long-awaited EPA data decision

For more than 20 years, hog and other livestock farmers have lived with uncertainty over what new federal permitting or reporting requirements could result from an emissions study conducted nearly two decades ago.In a regulatory win for pork producers and other farmers, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will not finalize those emissions-estimating methodologies and will move to end obligations set under a 2005 agreement. After reviewing data collected from 2005-2007, EPA determine