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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Flesher

The EPA is rejecting calls for tougher regulation of big livestock farms. It's promising more study

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President Joe Biden's administration Tuesday rejected pleas to strengthen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways, promising more study instead.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it had denied two petitions from environmental and community groups seeking revision of rules dealing with the nation's biggest animal operations, which hold thousands of hogs, chickens and cattle.

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