| Dear Dan,
| Protect Air and Water from Factory Farm Pollution! |  | | Factory farms - industrial-like facilities that confine thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of animals in small areas - are among the nation's biggest polluters. They produce an estimated 500 million tons of manure every year - three times the amount of waste the human population of the U.S. produces. Dumped into pits and onto the land, manure emits health-threatening quantities of toxic gases into the air as it decomposes. Spills and runoff of manure from factory farms can destroy rivers and contaminate downstream communities' drinking-water supplies. Residents of Waco, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, have paid millions of dollars in excess drinking water treatment costs. Despite the documented health and environmental threats from factory farms, some members of Congress, under pressure from the livestock industry, want to exempt these polluting operations from important environmental laws. Source: Sierra Club |
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