BANR Reports

Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs (2002) It discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee that wrote the report calls for EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. The recommendation was made for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health. More...