Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
Article Title
Hatching a Plan for Local Communities: Environmental Justice in Poultry Siting Decisions
Abstract
One of the implementation problems for environmental justice is reconciling the need to protect public health with the economic realities of struggling communities. This article explores that tension through the lens of siting decisions for large scale poultry operations in rural communities. Poultry siting decisions have major economic and environmental impacts and have been underdiscussed in the environmental justice literature. This article focuses on the role of law and policy in concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) siting— from community benefit agreements to Right to Farm legislation. It uses a Kansas CAFO siting and the wider Kansas experience as a case study.
First Page
32
Recommended Citation
Diana Stanley,
Hatching a Plan for Local Communities: Environmental Justice in Poultry Siting Decisions,
10
Wash. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y
32
(2020).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjelp/vol10/iss1/3