# Trump’s EPA Will Abandon Efforts to Limit Air Pollution From Factory Farms

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/trumps-epa-will-abandon-efforts-to-limit-air-pollution-from-factory-farms/
- Published: 2026-11-04T12:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T14:11:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Mother Jones (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/11/epa-factory-farms-cafo-clean-air-act-pollution-rollback-trump-lee-zeldin/
- Topics: Climate, Environment, Politics, Science

## Key points

- The EPA is ending its factory-farm air pollution measurement effort.
- Promised emissions methods were never produced.
- Research links these emissions to nearly 12,700 US deaths a year.

## Summary

The EPA says it will end a more than 20-year effort to develop methods for measuring air pollution from factory farms, closing off a route towards regulating them under the Clean Air Act. The agency framed the decision as relief for farmers, while environmental advocates said it leaves the facilities with little prospect of being held accountable for their emissions.

Concentrated animal feeding operations can release fine particles, ammonia, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds from animal waste. A 2005 agreement gave thousands of farms protection from legal action while an industry-funded study sought to develop measurement tools, but the EPA never produced the promised methods; its inspector general criticised delays in 2017. Research cited in the article estimates that emissions from these facilities contribute to nearly 12,700 deaths in the United States each year, while reporting duties under other pollution laws have also been cut back.

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