A new study, released on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, concludes that ammonia air pollution from the Chesapeake region poultry industry contributes about 12 million pounds of nitrogen to the Bay every year, more than all the sewage and wastewater in Maryland or Pennsylvania.
The report by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) uses the most recent scientific studies and federal data to show that the more than one billion chickens and turkeys grown in the Bay region every year produce about 5.7 billion pounds of manure and about 200 million pounds of ammonia emissions every year.
The fall of this air pollution back onto land and waterways, combined with the runoff of poultry manure spread on farm fields, contributes about 24 million pounds of nitrogen – the Bay’s biggest killer -- to the Chesapeake every year, according to EIP’s report, “Poultry Industry Pollution in the Chesapeake Region.”
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE.
READ THE ENTIRE EIP REPORT, "Poultry Industry Pollution in the Chesapeake Region" HERE.
The report by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) uses the most recent scientific studies and federal data to show that the more than one billion chickens and turkeys grown in the Bay region every year produce about 5.7 billion pounds of manure and about 200 million pounds of ammonia emissions every year.
The fall of this air pollution back onto land and waterways, combined with the runoff of poultry manure spread on farm fields, contributes about 24 million pounds of nitrogen – the Bay’s biggest killer -- to the Chesapeake every year, according to EIP’s report, “Poultry Industry Pollution in the Chesapeake Region.”
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE.
READ THE ENTIRE EIP REPORT, "Poultry Industry Pollution in the Chesapeake Region" HERE.
