Animal feeding operations are increasing Whatcom’s air pollution, study finds

Cows look up from eating in one of the barns at Ferndale Farmstead in April 2024. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Cascadia Daily News

New research finds that many vulnerable Whatcom County populations live within a concerning distance to potentially polluting cattle and hog operations. Lianne Sheppard, interim chair of the University of Washington Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and professor of biostatistics, is quoted.

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