National Research Council

Division on Earth and Life Studies

Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Committee on Animal Nutrition

Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations

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.

Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations

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