Tell the EPA: Defend our planet from factory farm pollution!

Factory farming operations have been linked to asthma, higher cancer rates, and birth defects. It emits massive amounts of pollution and allows fertilizer chemicals to seep into our drinking water. Few regulations prevent the industrial meat industry from raking in profits while polluting our air and water.

But you can demand the EPA protect your health and the environment from factory farm pollution. Will you stand up for our planet by sending a message to EPA?

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Dear EPA Administrator Regan:

I am writing to urge you to regulate methane emissions from industrial hog and dairy operations and reject factory farm gas as a false solution. Factory farm gas, which involves burning methane from liquefied manure, is just dirty energy pushed by Big Oil & Gas as “renewable” to greenwash their fossil fuel climate pollution. Factory farming is a driving cause of the climate crisis, harms local communities, creates breeding grounds for the next pandemic, and perpetuates intolerable animal suffering

The EPA so far has failed to treat industrial animal agriculture like the climate polluter it is. It now has an opportunity to correct its course by listing industrial dairy and hog operations as category sources that cause and contribute significantly to dangerous pollution as defined by section 111 of the Clean Air Act. According to EPA's own data, this sector accounts for 33 percent of agricultural methane emissions and 13 percent of U.S. methane emissions. Yet, the agency has neglected to exercise its current authority to regulate the animal agriculture sector, letting it spew methane emissions and other pollutants unchecked.

The EPA should reject factory farm gas. Factory farm gas will incentivize more factory farming and climate harm, air pollution, and water pollution that comes with it. Communities living near factory farms are often low-income communities and communities of color, making this a crucial environmental justice issue.

I respectfully urge you to grant the Public Justice Methane Petition to regulate methane emissions from industrial dairy and hog operations and ensure that methane gas from factory farms is not accepted as a solution to methane emissions.

Sincerely,

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