"A federal court on Friday faulted U.S. EPA for releasing hundreds of pages of documents containing personal information of owners of livestock operations.

In a win for agribusiness groups, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that personal contact information for concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, should have fallen under a Freedom of Information Act exemption for private data.

EPA's release of the data constituted a "clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," Judge Steven Colloton, a Republican appointee, wrote for the court."

Amanda Reilly reports for Greenwire September 12, 2016. [2]