Forwarded from Dick Bird of the Leopold Sierra Group:

This Tuesday, Sept. 14th at 1:30 p.m. the State Legislative Rules Review
Committee
will hold an open hearing for public comments on the Clean Air Rules
recently passed
by the Environmental Protection Commission.

The recommended level of hydrogen sulfide will be 30 parts per billion, not
as good as
the 15 ppb we were asking for, but it is at least a starting point if it
passes.

Factory farm supporters try to argue that any meaningful clean air rules for
Iowa will
drive livestock producers out of our state, but that is simply not the case.
27 states
have established standards for hydrogen sulfide and 11 have standards for
ammonia.
This includes the surrounding states of Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, North
Dakota,
and Missouri, all of which grow livestock for market.

It's time Iowa joins our neighbors in putting public health above the
profits of corporate
factory farms.  Family farms have no trouble meeting these standards, it is
the
factory farm owners who are afraid of clean air rules because they don't
want to pay
to clean up their own pollution.

Those causing the pollution will be there in force, so anyone who can attend
is encouraged
to come to the meeting and making your views known.  It will be in the State
Capitol
Building, room 116, starting at 1:30 on Tuesday.  Come early if you want a
seat -- the
room is not overly large and there will probably be a crowd.

Whether you can attend or not, you can let your feelings be known in e-mails
to the
members of the committee.  Their names and e-mail addresses are:

Representative George Eichhorn (R): [log in to unmask]
Representative Danny Carroll (R):  [log in to unmask]
Representative Marcella Frevert (D):  [log in to unmask]
Representative David Heaton (R):  [log in to unmask]
Senator Mary Lundby (R):  [log in to unmask]
Senator Michael Connolly (D):  [log in to unmask]
Senator John Kibbie (D):  [log in to unmask]
Senator Paul McKinley (R):  [log in to unmask]
Senator Donald Redfern (R):  (no e-mail)  415 Clay Street, Cedar Falls, IA
50613  (319) 277-6830
Representative Geri Huser (D):  [log in to unmask]

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