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Combatting Agricultural Pollution: Michigan’s New Manure Management Rules
A state Environment Department effort to more stringently manage how large livestock operations manage and spread manure faltered under pressure from the Michigan Farm Bureau. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue
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LANSING. Mich. – Because lawmakers and regulators embrace the principle that agriculture’s primary objective is to feed people, farming is a sacrosanct industrial sector in the United States. Understand that every industry in the U.S. except for agriculture is required to limit water pollution. But ever since 1972, when Congress exempted farming from most of […]
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LANSING. Mich. – Because lawmakers and regulators embrace the principle that agriculture’s primary objective is to feed people, farming is a sacrosanct industrial sector in the United States. Understand that every industry in the U.S. except for agriculture is required to limit water pollution. But ever since 1972, when Congress exempted farming from most of […]
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