Poultry Manure Regulations Spark Debate

By Tom Pelton

Published January 28, 2014 at 1:23 PM EST

Poultry Manure Regulations Spark Debate

Environment In Focus Podcast 1-29-2014

Three years ago, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's administration promised to impose regulations on poultry manure to help reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

But twice the administration has delayed these protections for clean water and human health after farmers protested.

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Tom Pelton, a national award-winning environmental journalist, has hosted "The Environment in Focus" since 2007. He also works as director of communications for the Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to holding polluters and governments accountable to protect public health. From 1997 until 2008, he was a journalist for The Baltimore Sun, where he was twice named one of the best environmental reporters in America by the Society of Environmental Journalists.

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