The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a rule to establish new water pollution control standards for slaughterhouses and rendering facilities discharging waste into U.S. rivers, lakes, and streams, a leading cause of the nitrogen and phosphorus pollution that fuels toxic algal blooms and “dead zones” in our waterways.
But the deadline to comment is today!
We contend that EPA must resist industry influence to put profit over people and instead do its duty to provide a modernized, robust regulatory framework that fulfills its mission 'to protect human health and the environment -- today and everyday.'
EPA has proposed three options to this problem. It is imperative that we let them know that only the most protective option will suffice.
Now is the time to finally address this serious, well-documented source of industrial pollution that endangers clean water and safe communities. We cannot afford further inaction or half measures.
That is why we are rallying all voices to leave personalized comments with EPA asking for the strongest possible safeguards.
