Efforts to check the air quality around the poultry houses on the Eastern Shore got some scrutiny last night during a meeting hosted by the Maryland Department of the Environment in Princess Anne.
The state agency along with Delmarva Poultry Industry Incorporated and the Keith Campbell Foundation will be placing two monitors near chicken houses to check on ammonia in the air.
But WBOC reports that some environmental activists expressed a lack of trust in the agency and the poultry industry to do the monitoring.
DPI Executive Director Holly Porter countered that the industry wants to know more about emissions from chicken houses.
The Food and Water Watch Organizer Rebecca Wolf noted that her group has been pushing for the Community Healthy Air Act in the Maryland legislature for the last three years.
The issue of air emissions has become more intense since the introduction of large poultry houses in the region.
