Sierrans & Friends: Please circulate this email to your friends who you believe are concerned about the issue of Local Control of animal factories. SSB 1140 is a study bill for an act regulating confinement feeding operations by providing for the evaluation of applications to construct confinement feeding operation structures. This is Sen. Kibbie's bill to strengthen the county matrix scoring on CAFOs, by requiring attainment of certain scores, scores in all categories, and providing that points can be deducted as well as added. It will come up in Senate Agriculture Committee probably tomorrow, perhaps Wednesday. Your emails or phone calls to Senate Agriculture Committee members will help to achieve committee action on SSB 1140. Senate Agriculture Committee members are: Gene Fraise (D, District 46), Chair Tom Rielly (D, District 38), Vice Chair David Johnson (R, District 3), Ranking Member Staci Appel (D, District 37) Dennis H. Black (D, District 21) Nancy J. Boettger (R, District 29) Thomas G. Courtney (D, District 44) E. Thurman Gaskill (R, District 6) Tom Hancock (D, District 16) Hubert Houser (R, District 49) John P. "Jack" Kibbie (D, District 4) Dave Mulder (R, District 2) Rich Olive (D, District 5) John Putney (R, District 20) Dr. Joe M. Seng (D, District 43) Please email or call your Senator tonight to ask them to support SSB 1140. This is urgent to the effort to get Local Control on CAFOs this Session. Thanks for your action! Lyle Krewson ____________________________________________ Lyle Krewson Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter Lobbyist 1725 S. 50th Street #602 West Des Moines, IA 50265 [log in to unmask] 515-238-7113 - Cel ____________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp