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Ranchers now required to report livestock gas to EPA

RBC | Beginning on May 1 ranchers and livestock producers will be required to report releases of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from animal waste as they are mandated to participate in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
Livestock regularly produce ammonia as they are releasing body gases.
The rules were initially adopted by the EPA in the 1980s, however according to…