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John,

Slaughterhouses and rendering facilities discharge billions of pounds of water pollution every year. They have spent decades recklessly polluting our waterways – making them unsafe for us and uninhabitable for wildlife. 

In response to a lawsuit by Food & Water Watch and allies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally proposed new water pollution standards for slaughterhouses and rendering facilities.

But these rules would require pollution reductions from fewer than half of the more than 5,000 slaughterhouses and meat processing plants whose wastes endanger our rivers, lakes, and streams.

How is that progress? No one should be able to pollute our waters with impunity! That’s where you come in. The EPA is accepting public comments until March 25th, so now is the time to take action to protect clean water and stop slaughterhouse pollution!
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Submitting a comment to Regulations.gov is easy.
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-- Use any link in this email to be taken to the Regulations.gov page.
-- Add your comment into the text box, then provide the required contact information.
-- Click the blue “Submit Comment” box at the bottom of the page. 

Here is some sample comment language to get you started:

EPA must enact the most environmentally protective regulatory option for slaughterhouse pollution to rein in this dirty industry. Exempting most slaughterhouses from updated water pollution rules is unacceptable. More must be done to protect people and the environment by stopping dangerous pollution from entering our waterways.

Stop Pollution!
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Over 60 million people live near rivers and streams polluted by slaughterhouses. And this pollution disproportionately harms low-income communities and communities of color.

This is a critical environmental justice fight. It’s a fight for our communities, our water, and our environment. It’s a fight we won’t back down from until the EPA adopts robust and protective standards.

Are you with us, John?

Submit your comment letting EPA know that communities deserve strong protection from slaughterhouses and rendering facility water pollution.
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Onward,

Dani Replogle
Staff Attorney
Food & Water Watch


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