Air Permits. From the Washington Indiana Times-Herald, this story on the public hearing for Grain Processing Corporation's (GPC's) Title 5 air quality permit application.
Jefferson Proving Grounds cleanup. From the Madison Courier, this story headlined "EPA renews concerns about extent of JPG cleanup plan." This looks to be a federal interagency dispute.
Confined feeding. From the Chicago Tribune, a major story titled: "Factory farm foes fed up: Sick of the foul odors and government inaction, critics of huge swine operations are taking complaints to court" A quote:
From Alabama to Illinois, grass-roots groups have turned to the courts in an attempt to shut down industrial-style concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, or to keep them from being built. In Iowa alone, 14 lawsuits are pending that allege hog farms are nuisances.Posted by Marcia Oddi at March 24, 2004 03:59 PM"People who live in these rural communities are completely fed up," said Melanie Shepherdson, an expert on factory farms with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "When you have the state government and the federal government not doing anything about it, then the people who live in these communities say, `We don't want to deal with that, and if you're not going to clean it up, we're going to hire our own lawyer.'"