Iowa Livestock Air Law Has No Penalties
by Perry Beeman, Des Moines Register
Iowa has its first limits on air pollution from livestock operations – but the rule has no teeth, and few are satisfied with it.
Those who called for regulations, including Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, say the limits on toxic hydrogen sulfide – a lung irritant from manure that smells like rotten eggs – aren't tough enough.
Others, including the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, say that even those restrictions violate the intent of state law.
The
debate over odors and other emissions from large-scale hog confinements
and other livestock facilities has bitterly divided Iowans. Thousands
of confinement neighbors have packed public meetings in recent years as
the Iowa Legislature repeatedly declined to limit gases from the farms.
Many said their quality of life was ruined by the emissions, and they
feared their property values would be, too.
…Barb Kalbach of Adair County, a member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, said the limits – which do not cover odor or ammonia from livestock confinements – fall short but are a good start.
“Rural
Iowans deserve to breathe clean air free of pollution from factory
farms,” Kalbach said at a Statehouse rally [in September].
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A huge bite needs to be taken out of all industrial polluters those of which include large Confined Animal Feeding Operations(CAFOs). IOWANS need to look seriously at the disadvages of being near the life altering/life threating waste products that have caused memory loss, fatigue, chemical brain damage, & death. Economics plus worthless local & state environmental laws are the two pilars of this situation. There can be a lot of money made in raising, killing, & selling confined animals. We need to look at the disadvantages of this from a community standpoint & not just from the position that this type of industry will bring jobs to the area. Please become involved in your local meetings from Soil & Water Conservation Commissions to your county Board of Supervisors meetings to your local county health boards. YOU can help out. ACTIVISM, IT'S THE ANTI-AGING DEVICE….DEAN ON!.
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