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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal feeding--Environmental aspects--United States.

Animal feeding.

Feedlots--Environmental aspects--United States.

Feedlots.

Animal industry--Environmental aspects--United States.

Animal industry.

Odors.

Air--Pollution--United States.

Air.

Agricultural pollution--Research--United States.

Agricultural pollution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (176-193).

ISBN:

9786610182879

9780309168649

0309168643

9781280182877

1280182873

9780309507585

0309507588

OCLC:

923254333