How Factory Farms Evade Pollution Rules, Dumping Toxic Waste

How Factory Farms Dodge Pollution Rules — and Move Millions of Gallons of Toxic Waste Into U.S. Waterways

U.S. factory farms generate staggering amounts of manure. Some use a legal paperwork trick called…

Children's Health Defense

by Sentient Media

By Seth Millstein

Factory farms produce staggering amounts of manure and, in theory, there are strict regulations in place to keep it from contaminating nearby waterways.

But in practice, many of these companies have found a hidden way to make millions of gallons of waste effectively disappear — at least, in the eyes of the law — with no oversight or accountability as to where it ends up or what pollution it causes.