The biggest livestock farms could have been prohibited from building new or bigger facilities in some of Oregon’s most polluted groundwater regions under a state legislative bill environmental groups were backing. But it won’t happen this year.
The bill won’t make it to the legislative floor, following a contentious hearing in Salem.
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