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 brought 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.
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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.
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.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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