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2014 Autumn | Agriculture and Food Systems, Business & Sustainability, Climate Change

Regulating Factory Farms & Curbing Climate Change

Student(s):

Johnny Howe

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Gary Olson & Lucy Edmondson

Partner(s):

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10

Faculty advisor(s):

Charles Treser, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

I worked with the U.S. EPA to develop an air management plan for the Yakama Nation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), a type of factory farm. I was interested in studying CAFOs effects on the environment and ways in which regulation can be implemented to curb these effects. By focusing the majority of my research on air emissions, I discovered how America’s farming practices have become largely unsustainable and are contributing greatly to the proliferation of climate change as a result.