New rules from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on when and how the largest animal farms dispose of manure and liquid wastes are being praised by environmentalists as a step toward improving state water quality — and blasted by farmers as more costly bureaucratic impositions that won’t better the environment. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.
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