(April 18, 2017, 2:42 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on April 11 vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempted farms from reporting air releases of animal waste under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know-Act of 1986 (EPCRA), finding that the agency could not justify the exemption (Waterkeeper Alliance v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nos. 09-1017, 09-1104, D.C. Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6174)....