Photo by US Department of Agriculture via eutrophication&hypoxia on Flickr Creative Commons California's Central Valley is home to some of the state's largest dairies, and we're all quite familiar with how damaging dairy farms can be on the environment. It is responsible for about 4% of man-made GHG emissions , and in the Central Valley of California alone, cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of wh...
Photo by US Department of Agriculture via eutrophication&hypoxia on Flickr Creative Commons California’s Central Valley is home to some of the state’s largest dairies, and we’re all quite familiar with how damaging dairy farms can be on the environment. It is responsible for about 4% of man-made GHG emissions , and in the Central Valley of California alone, cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21 million people, much of wh…
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California’s Regulators Turn Blind Eye to Groundwater Pollution From Dairies
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