Washington State: The Community Association of Restoration of the Environment (CARE) and the Center for Food Safety have brought suit against five Yakima Valley dairies. The EPA tested 331 wells in Yakima Valley. Twenty percent had dangerously high levels of nitrates. The nitrates raising a health risk for the 24,000 residents of the area.
The EPA and the dairies made a binding agreement that requires the dairies do specific things to clean up the water. Charlie Tebbutt, attorney for CARE and the Center for Food Safety, told the Yakima Herald Republic newspaper that the EPA agreement “only reinforces the use of failed strategies that will not solve the contamination and will continue to put the Lower Valley residents at risk.”
A statement by the two groups said they ”look forward to obtaining an order from the Court requiring the dairies to clean up so that the taxpayers are not stuck with the bill while the dairies reap profits at the expense of the community.”
This trial will be watched carefully by factory farms around the country. It could change the way factory farms operate.
source : Food Safety News
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