Livestock Groups Want Exemption from Emergency Reporting

Farm and livestock groups continue to fight for an exemption from emergency reporting of manure emissions, after the EPA lost a federal court decision to environmental groups that sued over the exemption.  An appeals court in DC denied a request by pork, poultry and other livestock and farm groups to rehear its rejection of an EPA exemption from 2008 U.S. manure emission reporting regulations.  American Farm Bureau’s Andrew Walmsley argues that hazardous substance reporting is unnecessary for manure.

“We’ve been working with our first responder communities and those who have received these reports saying yeah, we really don’t need them because the court vacated them back in April.  We’ve been working with EPA working with the Hill to try and find a solution.”

Walmsley added, there’s no way scientifically, to measure manure emissions, creating a reporting ‘headache’ for producers, while possibly overwhelming emergency call centers.

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