EPA Withdraws Proposed Rule for More Stringent Water Pollution Guidelines at Slaughterhouses

Letter to the Editor: Water quality is everyone's problem

LETTER: It is disheartening to learn of summer spikes in bacteria at 2/3’s of Iowa’s state beaches. Iowa is falling far short of managing our nutrient load including nitrite and phosphate runoff from our land and into our waterways. Not…

EPA withdraws proposed rule for more stringent water pollution guidelines at slaughterhouses

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a January 2024 proposed rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meat packing plants and slaughterhouses. The agency said it chose to withdraw the rules in an effort…

EPA Drops Proposed Rules to Limit Slaughterhouse Waste Pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency has axed proposed rules aimed at reducing pollution from slaughterhouse waste, including animal manure and blood. The proposal was initially advanced during the Biden administration. The EPA says, among other things, the withdrawal of the proposed new rule is an action that “advances the goals of President Trump’s executive actions on defeating the cost-of-living crisis and unleashing prosperity through deregu…

EPA withdraws proposed rule for more stringent water pollution guidel...

The Raccoon River flows under the Bill Riley Trail Bridge in Des Moines on Sept. 2, 2025. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a January 2024 proposed rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meat packing plants and slaughterhouses.  The agency said it chose [...] The post EPA withdraws proposed rule for more stringent water pollution guidel… appeared…