Reports
Environmental Integrity Project (Apr 2020) – Poultry Industry Pollution in the Chesapeake Region
North Carolina State University (Dec 2019) – Modeling and Measurements of Ammonia from Poultry Operations: Their Emissions, Transport, and Deposition in the Chesapeake Bay
Colorado State University (PNAS) (Mar 2016) – CSU Press Release | Increasing importance of deposition of reduced nitrogen in the United States
University of California-Riverside (PNAS) (Mar 2016) – EurekAlert (press release) | Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States
Univ of Maryland-Environmental Finance Center (June 2015) – Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Restoration Financing Strategy Final Report
USGS (Sep 2015) – Surface-Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds of the North Carolina Coastal Plain Associated with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
US EPA (Apr 2015) – Community Based Public-Private Partnerships and Alternative Market-Based Tools for Integrated Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Veolia/IFPRI (Apr 2015) – The murky future of global water quality | Press Release
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Oct 2014) – The Economic Benefits of Cleaning Up the Chesapeake
Environmental Defence (Canada) (Aug 2014) – CLEAN, NOT GREEN: Tackling Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes
Environmental Integrity Project (July 2014) – Murky Waters: More Accountability Needed for Agricultural Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay
Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee – Chesapeake Bay Program (May 2014) – Critical Issues in Implementing Nutrient Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
International Joint Commission (IJL) Lake Erie Ecosystem Priority (Feb 2014) – A Balanced Diet for Lake Erie: Reducing Phosphorus Loadings and Harmful Algal Blooms
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (Oct 2013) – Industrial Food Animal Production in America
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (Sep 2013) – Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock
National Wildlife Federation/Resource Media (Sep 2013) – Toxic Algae: Coming Soon to a Lake Near You?
International Joint Commission – Lake Erie Ecosystem Priority (Aug 2013) – Scientific Findings and Policy Recommendations to Reduce Nutrient Loadings and Harmful Algal Blooms
Global Partnership on Nutrient Management/UNEP (Feb 2013) – Our Nutrient World: The challenge to produce more food and energy with less pollution (choose executive summary or full report)
Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee Report (1/22/13) – A Cost Effective Alternative Approach to Meeting Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Targets
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI – World Water Week) (8/21/12) – Feeding a Thirsty World: Challenges and Opportunities for a Water and Food Secure Future
Chesapeake Bay Commission/RTI International (5/10/12) – Nutrient Credit Trading for the Chesapeake Bay – An Economic Study
Environmental Working Group (4/6/12) – Troubled Waters: Farm Pollution Threatens Drinking Water
National Association of Clean Water Agencies (3/6/12 released) – Controlling Nutrient Loadings to U.S. Waterways: An Urban Perspective
Ecological Society of America (1/7/12) – Excess Nitrogen in the U.S. Environment: Trends, Risks, and Solutions
Environmental Integrity Fund (2011) – Hazardous Pollution from Factory Farms: An Analysis of EPA’s National Air Emissions Monitoring Study Data
Food and Water Watch/CA Sportfishing Protection Alliance (2011) – What’s in the Water? Industrial Dairies, Groundwater Pollution and Regulatory Failure in California’s Central Valley
National Academy of Sciences (et al) – Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities (2010)
National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program (2010) – USGS Circular 1350: Nutrients in the Nation’s Streams and Groundwater |
Nutrients remain elevated in the Nation’s streams and groundwater (Map);
Nitrate in Shallow Ground Water (Map);
Phosphorus and Nitrogen Delivery to the Gulf of Mexico (Map);
National Science and Technology Council (2010) – Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters
Environmental Law & Policy Center/Mississippi River Collaborative (2010) – Cultivating Clean Water
World Resources Institute (2010) – How Nutrient Trading Could Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay
National Geographic Society (2010) – Marine Habitat Destruction
Cornell Nutrition Conference (2009) – “Demystifying the environmental sustainability of food production”
USDA ERS (2009) – The Transformation of U.S. Livestock Agriculture: Scale, Efficiency, and Risks
General Accountability Office (2008) – Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: EPA Needs More Information and a Clearly Defined Strategy to Protect Air and Water Quality from Pollutants of Concern
Metcalf & Eddy Report (2008) – PA Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy Compliance Cost Study
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (2008) – “Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses “Unacceptable” Risks to Public Health, Environment”
UNESCO, UNEP (2008) – “Livestock in a Changing Landscape”
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Report (2006) – “Manure’s Impact on Rivers, Streams and the Chesapeake Bay”
Pew Oceans Commission (2003) – “America’s Living Oceans: Summary Report – Recommendations for a New Ocean Policy” Major Threats to Our Oceans: Animal Feedlots
