The CAFO Papers
May 17, 2004
New Documents Show How Bush Administration Gave Meat Industry Control Over Factory Farm Pollution Policy
(The files linked below are in PDF format.)
Hundreds of pages of recently-released documents expose how the Bush administration gave the meat industry control over a proposed deal to let factory farms off the hook for pollution violations. The new documents show the true extent of the meat industry's influence, revealing that the Bush administration met on a monthly basis behind closed doors with industry lobbyists for over a year. To see the names of industry groups granted special access to the administration, click here.
The documents reveal that in May of 2002 meat industry lobbyists approached the administration, proposing a deal where industry would be let off the hook for violations of the basic environmental protections such as the Clean Air Act and CERCLA toxics laws. To see the industry's proposal for their own 'get out of jail free' card, click here.
The latest draft of EPA's proposed agreement closely mirror's the industry's wish list. To see the draft agreement, click here.
Other documents are particularly revealing about the extent of access that the administration granted to industry polluters. A series of email correspondence shows that an industry lobbyist even wrote a power-point presentation for EPA, literally putting words in the mouth of the administration. To see these emails, click here.
Another series of emails shows how the National Pork Producers Council agreed to pay for EPA travel to a confidential industry meeting. Eventually, an EPA official acknowledges that this was a "big no-no." Click here.
For more CAFO papers from 2003, click here.
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