EPA to update water pollution rules for meat plants

Meat and poultry processing plants would reduce their emissions of water pollutants, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, by 100 million pounds annually under proposed wastewater rules, said the Environmental Protection Agency. It would be the first update of effluent limitation guidelines in a generation. The guidelines are intended to represent the greatest pollutant reductions that… » Read More

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