Saturday, April 4, 2015

Environmental Impact Statement on a factory farm


 In August 2014, neighbors to a proposed 8,850-cow factory farm in Stevens County, Minnesota called on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Citizens' Board to protect their community. Among neighbors' concerns was that each year this factory farm would have used close to 100 million gallons of water and generated over 75 million gallons of liquid manure. 


The MPCA Citizens' Board listened and for the first time ever ordered an Environmental Impact Statement on a factory farm.


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