Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement

Copeland, Claudia

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Air quality;    Air pollution;    Agriculture;   

RP-ID  :  RL32947
RP-ID  :  RL32947_2007Aug31

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

From an environmental quality standpoint, much of the interest in animal agriculture has focused on impacts on water resources, because animal waste, if not properly managed, can harm water quality through surface runoff, direct discharges, spills, and leaching into soil and groundwater. A more recent issue is the contribution of emissions from animal feeding operations (AFO), enterprises where animals are raised in confinement, to air pollution. AFOs can affect air quality through emissions of gases such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, hazardous air pollutants, and odor. These pollutants and compounds have a number of environmental and human health effects. This report reviews key issues associated with the Air Compliance Agreement.