>From: Jane Clark <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Iowa Discussion, Alerts and Announcements"
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Clean Air Rules
>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:30:20 -0500
>
>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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