A barn in the Palouse Region of eastern Washington state. The meat and dairy industries — along with the farms that grow corn and soy for animal feed — are some of the biggest polluters in the US. Yet they’re largely exempt from environmental regulations. An argument that industry lobbyists and allied politicians often make is that there are simply too many farms to regulate. In 2022, when asked why farmers aren’t required to reduce their pollution, then-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters that farms aren’t as straightforward to regulate pollution as, say, factories. The...

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