The U.S. government says it uses other tools — such as management plans, self-reporting and surprise inspections — to ensure animal feedlots in Idaho comply with anti-pollution rules. (CN) — Despite unsafe levels of E. coli and other pollutants in Idaho’s Snake River, a lawyer told a skeptical Ninth Circuit panel Thursday that the federal government doesn’t need to monitor water pollution coming from industrial animal-feeding operations in the south part of the state. “There are other enforcement tools that EPA uses to go after [concentrated animal feeding operations] permitted or not, including inspections, responding to citizen complaints and concerns,” U.S. Justice Department lawyer Benjamin Grillot argued before the Ninth Circuit.