Fighting Ohio and Big Ag to Save Lake Erie: An Expose of Ohio's Split CAFO
CAFO “Permit-to-Pollute” Scheme
| Title | Fighting Ohio and Big Ag to Save Lake Erie: An Expose of Ohio's Split CAFO CAFO “Permit-to-Pollute” Scheme |
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| Subject | Water -- Pollution -- Ohio |
| Nitrates -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio | |
| Livestock -- Manure -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio | |
| Feedlot runoff -- Ohio | |
| Feedlots -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio | |
| Agricultural pollution -- Ohio | |
| Description | Report by Lake Erie Advocates Member Vickie Askins on CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) in Ohio and how Ohio legislators and governmental employees have allowed them to continue polluting, resulting in severe environmental impacts, including toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie fueled by excess phosphorus runoff. |
| Creator | Askins, Vickie |
| Source | Center for Archival Collections; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
| Date | 2023-06-28 |
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| Format | Records (Documents) |
| application/pdf | |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Text |
| Text | |
| Identifier | Askins-FightingOhioBigAgSaveLakeErie.pdf |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/42523 | |
| Abstract | The facts as presented in this document prove that Ohio’s split CAFO/CAFF permitting programs have clearly resulted in confusion and pollution: - Ohio legislators passed legislation to transfer authority to regulate CAFOs/CAFFs fromOhio EPA to ODA and repealed Ohio EPA’s CAFO and manure rules in 2000. -ODA’s current CAFO statutes (ORC 903) for “state permits” acknowledge they are notoperative until U.S. EPA approves the ODA’s CAFO program, which has never happened,yet ODA has issued hundreds of CAFO/CAFF permits since 2002. -Ohio EPA claims it still has authority over “federal” NPDES permits for CAFOs – yet the CAFO Unit was basically disbanded; long-time employees were transferred to other departments; and Ohio EPA has repeatedly failed to file mandatory CAFO NPDES permit reports to U.S. EPA Region 5. - U.S. EPA Region 5 has totally neglected their oversight responsibilities which should have ensured Ohio’s programs conformed with federal requirements. |
| Spatial Coverage | Ohio |
| Rights Holder | Askins, Vickie |
