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Combatting Agricultural Pollution: Michigan’s New Manure Management Rules LANSING. Mich. – Because lawmakers and regulators embrace the principle that agriculture’s primary objective is to feed people, farming is a sacrosanct industrial sector in the United States. Understand that every industry…

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Combatting Agricultural Pollution: Michigan’s New Manure Management Rules LANSING. Mich. – Because lawmakers and regulators embrace the principle that agriculture’s primary objective is to feed people, farming is a sacrosanct industrial sector in the United States. Understand that every industry in the U.S. except for agriculture is required to limit water pollution. But ever since 1972, when Congress exempted farming from most of the water-cleansing requirements of the Clean Water Act, farms have been perfectly free to discharge into the environment some of the most dangerous chemical compounds known to man. https://www.circleofblue.org/2026/great-lakes/combatting-agricultural-pollution-michigans-new-manure-management-rules/