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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969853503321

Titolo

Air emissions from animal feeding operations : current knowledge, future needs / / Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2003

ISBN

9786610182879

9780309168649

0309168643

9781280182877

1280182873

9780309507585

0309507588

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

363.73920973

Soggetti

Animal feeding - Environmental aspects - United States

Feedlots - Environmental aspects - United States

Animal industry - Environmental aspects - United States

Odors

Air - Pollution - United States

Agricultural pollution - Research - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (176-193).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Livestock Agriculture and Animal Feeding Operations""; ""3 Air Emissions""; ""4 Measuring Emissions""; ""5 Approaches for Estimating Emissions""; ""6 Government Regulations and Programs""; ""7 Improving Knowledge and Practices""; ""8 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""A Statement of Task""; ""B Acronyms



and Glossary""; ""C Bioaerosols""; ""D Nitrogen and Sulfur Contents of Animal Products and Live Animals� Sample Excretion Predictions""

""E Animal Units""""F Ammonia Emissions from Manure Storage""; ""G Regulatory Action Levels by Selected Atmospheric Pollutanta,b""; ""H Regulatory Action Levels by Regulatory Requirement and Action Statusa,b""; ""I Emission Factors for a Feed Mill or Grain Elevator""; ""J Public Meeting Agendas""; ""K Geographic Distribution of Livestock and Poultry Production in the United States for 1997""; ""L Emission Factors in Published Literature""; ""About the Authors""; ""Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications""

Sommario/riassunto

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.