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Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs
Author(s): National Research Council (Author), Division on Earth and Life Studies (Author), Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (Author), Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Author), Committee on Animal Nutrition (Author), Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations (Author)
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Publication Date: April 7, 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 286 pages
- ISBN-10: 0309087058
- ISBN-13: 9780309087056
Book Description
Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs 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 calls for the 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. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.
