Recommended Third-party Due Diligence Sources
Regulatory/Government Agencies
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST)
PA Department of Environmental Protection
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Nutrient Trading Program 
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Bion approval (#58 and #87 on list that loads)
US EPA
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Water Quality Trading (info) |
Water Quality Trading Evaluation |
Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Taskforce
Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
National Science and Technology Council
USDA
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2007 Ag Census |
USDA/Marketing and Trade/Data and Statistics |
Natural Resources Conservation Service, "Nutrient Credit Trading - a Market-based Approach for Improving Water Quality" |
Mississippi River Basin Initiative |
The Transformation of U.S. Livestock Agriculture: Scale, Efficiency, and Risks
Chesapeake Bay Executive Order
Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
US EPA |
GLRI Action Plan (see Focus Area 3: Nearshore Health and Nonpoint Source Pollution, pg 26)
Chesapeake Bay Program - Home
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Non-Government Sources
Environmental Trading Network - Water Quality Trading
The Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace - Nutrient Trading and Dead Zones | Building the Chesapeake Bay's Game-Changing Cap-and-Trade Water Scheme
Whole Foods Market - Farm Animal and Meat Quality Standards Program Requirements
Walmart - Sustainability Program
Reports
Ecological Society of America (1/7/12) - Excess Nitrogen in the U.S. Environment: Trends, Risks, and Solutions
Environmental Integrity Fund (2011) - Hazardous Pollution from Factory Farms: An Analysis of EPA's National Air Emissions Monitoring Study Data
Food and Water Watch/CA Sportfishing Protection Alliance (2011) - What's in the Water? Industrial Dairies, Groundwater Pollution and Regulatory Failure in California's Central Valley
National Academy of Sciences (et al) - Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities (2010)
National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program (2010) - USGS Circular 1350: Nutrients in the Nation's Streams and Groundwater | Nutrients remain elevated in the Nation's streams and groundwater (Map); Nitrate in Shallow Ground Water (Map); Phosphorus and Nitrogen Delivery to the Gulf of Mexico (Map);
National Science and Technology Council (2010) - Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters
Environmental Law & Policy Center/Mississippi River Collaborative (2010) - Cultivating Clean Water
World Resources Institute (2010) - How Nutrient Trading Could Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay
National Geographic Society (2010) - Marine Habitat Destruction
Cornell Nutrition Conference (2009) - "Demystifying the environmental sustainability of food production"
USDA ERS (2009) - The Transformation of U.S. Livestock Agriculture: Scale, Efficiency, and Risks
General Accountability Office (2008) - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: EPA Needs More Information and a Clearly Defined Strategy to Protect Air and Water Quality from Pollutants of Concern
Metcalf & Eddy Report (2008) - PA Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy Compliance Cost Study
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (2008) - "Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses "Unacceptable" Risks to Public Health, Environment"
UNESCO, UNEP (2008) - "Livestock in a Changing Landscape"
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Report (2006) - "Manure's Impact on Rivers, Streams and the Chesapeake Bay"
Pew Oceans Commission (2003) - "America's Living Oceans: Summary Report - Recommendations for a New Ocean Policy" Major Threats to Our Oceans: Animal Feedlots
Articles
Jan 28, 2012 - Barrons - Cattle Futures Beef Up
Jan 20, 2012 - MarketWatch - Food security is a good investment for the future
Jan 21, 2012 - Lancaster Farming - Nutrient Trading Slow, but DEP Sees Big Potential
Jan 7, 2012 - Woods Hole Research Center - New report reviews U.S. nitrogen pollution impacts & solutions
Dec 15, 2011 - Yakima Herald - Study Connects Large-Scale Dairies, Feedlots to Increased Air Pollution
Nov 16, 2011 - FoodBev.com - FrieslandCampina and Unilever support sustainable dairy
Oct 3, 2011 - Sacramento Bee - Good Water Gone Bad
Sept 30, 2011 - Echo Press - What Is In Our Water - Part 2
Sept 28, 2011 - Echo Press - What Is In Our Water - Part 1
Sept 28, 2011 - WOWK-13 - Cap and Trade for Nutrients Coming to Ohio River Valley
Sept 26, 2011 - US EPA - U.S. EPA Orders 13 Chino Dairies to Control Manure Runoff
Sept 25, 2011 - Richmond Times-Dispatch - Bay's restoration makes environmental, economic sense
Sept 7, 2011 - USGS - New USGS Database Provides Models on Excessive Nutrients in Rivers
August 9, 2011 - Chemical & Engineering News - No Progress In Nitrate Cleanup Of Mississippi River
June 14, 2011 - Science Daily - Major Flooding on the Mississippi River Likely to Cause Large Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
June 2, 2011 - NY Times - Chemicals in Farm Runoff Rattle States on the Mississippi
May 31, 2011 - LA Times (Op Ed) - Wal-Mart's green hat
April 29, 2011 - GreenBiz.com - Smithfield Foods and the Quest for Large-Scale, Sustainable Pork
April 18, 2011 - InsideEPA.com - EPA Modeling Raises Fears Over Strict Mississippi River Nutrient Limits
April 11, 2011 - Science Daily - Excessive Nitrogen Harms the Economy and Environment: First Europe-Wide Assessment Published
March 9, 2011 - Washington Post - Report: Excessive nutrients damaging Great Lakes
March 9, 2011 - PRNewswire - EIP: Unregulated Factory Farm Air Pollution at Some Sites Now Dirtier than America's Most Polluted Cities
February 24, 2011 - Food and Water Watch - Out of Sight, California's Groundwater Disaster is Also Out of Mind
February 23, 2011 - DTN Progressive Farmer - EPA Seen Likely to Use Bay as Model in Other Regions
February 14, 2011 - University of Queensland Australia - Acid oceans demand greater reef care
February 14, 2011 - Science Daily - World Phosphorous Use Crosses Critical Threshold
January 7, 2011 - High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal - EPA and the Chesapeake Bay
January 5, 2011 - BizReport - Report: Brands must advertise sustainability efforts
December 31, 2010 - AGJOURNAL.COM - Unusually high nitrogen levels found in Colorado's Front Range
December 23, 2010 - SteubenCourier.com - Reed: EPA watershed rules are 'crippling'
December 22, 2010 - Manufacturing and Business Technology - What The Food Safety Modernization Act Means To You
December 22, 2010 - The Farm Gate (Univ of Illinois) - How Are We Going To Double Global Food Production Over The Next 40 Years?
December 8, 2010 - Andrea Thomas (SVP Sustainability - Walmart) - Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Everyone
December 4, 2010 - HometownAnnapolis.com - Bay plan: 'Strongest blueprint,' big cost
December 3, 2010 - NoFishLeft - Ocean Dead Zones Double Down: The Seas are the Limit
December 2, 2010 - Western Farm Press - Future of farming: Big acreage, high-tech, earth-friendly
November 18, 2010 - Baltimore Sun - Greens want tighter pollution limits on poultry manure
November 16, 2010 - Walmart Community - Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Walmart
November 2, 2010 - Waterworld - Elevated Nitrogen, Phosphorus Still Widespread in U.S. Waters
October 25, 2010 - Spiked-Online - In Defence of Factory Farming
October 20, 2010 - High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal - How Walmart's sustainability efforts could impact on-farm production
October 14, 2010 - The New York Times - Wal-Mart to Buy More Local Produce
October 14, 2010 - The National Academies Briefing before Congress - Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities
September 29, 2010 - Science Daily - Worlds Rivers in 'Crisis State', Report Finds
September 23, 2010 - USGS Newsroom - Elevated Nitrogen and Phosphorus Still Widespread in Much of the Nation's Streams and Groundwater
September 3, 2010 - Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President - New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters
August 12, 2010 - US EPA - Eight Beef Feedlots in Northwest Iowa Face Enforcement Actions as EPA Emphasizes Compliance with Clean Water Act
August 3, 2010 - New York Times - This Year's Gulf 'Dead Zone' Among Largest Ever
July 6, 2010 - Center for Global Food Issues - CONFINED LIVESTOCK BETTER FOR THE PLANET
July 2, 2010 - AP - Grand Lake St. Mary's Is Toxic Due To Runoff From Neighboring Farms
July 1, 2010 - US EPA - EPA Announces Next Step Toward Establishing Rigorous Pollution Diet for Chesapeake Bay
June 21, 2010 - Scientific American - Sour Showers: Acid Rain Returns--This Time It Is Caused by Nitrogen Emissions
June 14, 2010 - Environmental Protection.com - Agency Estimates $298 B Needed for Water Pollution Control
June 9, 2010 - US EPA - Three Beef Feedlots in Iowa Face Civil Enforcement Actions as EPA Continues Emphasis on Compliance with Clean Water Act
June 8, 2010 - NY Times - Amish Farming Draws Rare Government Scrutiny
May 21, 2010 - Southeast Farm Press, Looking to air to improve Chesapeake Bay
May 13, 2010 - California Watch, Nitrate contamination spreading in California communities
May 12, 2010 - US EPA, New Federal Strategy for Chesapeake Launches Major Initiatives and Holds Government Accountable for Progress
March 17, 2010 - Science Daily, Environmental and Social Impact of the 'Livestock Revolution'
March 12, 2010 - Science Daily, Aquatic 'Dead Zones' Contributing to Climate Change
March 1, 2010 - Energy Bulletin, Tracking down the public-health implications of nitrogen pollution
March 1, 2010 - Washington Post, Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable
February 18, 2010 - FAO report analyzes the rapidly changing global livestock production
January 15, 2010 - US EPA, EPA Proposes Standards to Protect Florida's Waters: Action would decrease amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution
December 18, 2009 - US EPA, EPA Releases First-Ever Baseline Study of U.S. Lakes
December 15, 2009 - USDA, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, Dairy Producers Sign Historic Agreement to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 25% by 2020
December 9, 2009 - Food and Water Watch, Groups Demand Strong Groundwater Testing Program for Dairies in California's Central Valley
December 9, 2009 - National Public Radio, New Mexico Dairy Pollution Sparks 'Manure War'
December 7, 2009 - US EPA, Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public Health and the Environment
December 4, 2009 - Food and Water Watch, Nutrient credit trading program allows Harrisburg wastewater plant to meet Chesapeake Bay limits more cost effectively
November 17, 2009 - Environment News Service, EPA, Florida Agree to Limit Fertilizer, Animal Waste in State Waters
November 17, 2009 - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Judge rules W. Ky. hog farm permits need reworking
October 23, 2009 - Sun Gazette, Feds 'serious' about bay cleanup
October 20, 2009 - American Farmland Trust, Multi-State Water Quality Trading Effort Launched in Ohio River Basin
October 15, 2009 - US EPA, EPA Administrator Announces Plan to Retool and Reinvigorate Clean Water Enforcement Program
October 10, 2009 - PublicOpinion.com (Chambersburg, PA), CHESAPEAKE BAY: a 'Clean Water' catastrophe - Franklin, Adams, York county farmers brace for more EPA involvement
October 8, 2009 - Bay Journal, New research finds nitrogen loads to Bay underestimated by 20%
September 25, 2009 - Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feds to fund Mississippi clean up from Minnesota to the Gulf
September 17, 2009 - New York Times, Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
September 9, 2009 - Newsday, Bay Reports Call for more Livestock, Runoff Regs
July 7, 2009 - Baltimore Sun, Bay Pollution Called Human Peril
May 12, 2009 - Executive Order, CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
April 20, 2009 - National Public Radio, Navigating America's 'Poisoned Waters'
March 20, 2009 - Bay Journal, Report card gives Bay health a C- despite slight improvement
March 15, 2009 - Baltimore Sun, Chicken Growers Face EPA Crackdown
March 5, 2009 - Science Daily, "Nutrient Pollution Chokes Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems"
January 20, 2009 - New York Times, "States Join E.P.A. Study of Pathogens in Ohio River"
December 27, 2008 - Washington Post, "Broken Promises on the Bay"
November 24, 2008 - Environment News Service, "More Than Health Damaged by Nutrients in Drinking Water"
July 22, 2008 - Science Daily, "Air Pollution Causing Widespread and Serious Impacts to Ecosystems in Eastern United States"