A NEW OREGON PERMIT FOR INDUSTRIAL FARMS VIOLATES THE CLEAN WATER ACT, ADVOCATES ALLEGE

In Tillamook County, Oregon, the smell of manure wafts through the air. Here, over 80 concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, many of them dairies, dot the landscape.

Inside Climate News reports that in Tillamook County, Oregon, the smell of manure wafts through the air.

The report adds: Here, over 80 concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, many of them dairies, dot the landscape.

For these CAFOs and hundreds more, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has issued a new water-quality permit that advocates say violates the federal Clean Water Act.

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