"The Bush administration yesterday announced final rules for regulating livestock waste runoff from major factory-style farms that officials say will prevent billions of pounds of health-threatening pollutants from annually entering lakes and streams.
"The new Environmental Protection Agency rules, issued to meet a court-imposed deadline, will require all major concentrated feeding operations to obtain government permits to
regulate more strictly water contamination by animal manure and waste. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman hailed the regulations as a "historic step forward in our efforts to make America's waters cleaner and purer," but without harming the agriculture industry."
