News release: Over fifty groups petition EPA to improve oversight of water pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations
Today, a nationwide coalition of 50 citizens’ groups and community advocacy, environmental justice, and environmental advocacy organizations, together representing tens of millions of people, in partnership with Earthjustice, petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve its oversight of water pollution from industrial-scale concentrated animal feeding operations, commonly known as Large CAFOs. … According to the report, CAFOs cause disproportionate harm to communities of color, low-income communities, and under-resourced rural communities … To petitioners’ knowledge, this report is the first to describe the unequal harm that CAFOs impose on environmental justice communities in the Central Valley.