ICAN - ACTION ALERT!!!

Fact Sheet

If You Are Concerned about Factory Farms in Iowa, Your Action Is Needed Today!

HF 873, a bill setting environmentally-friendly guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), will help protect Iowan’s from air and water pollution by strengthening state laws governing the location of livestock confinement operations and management practices for land application of manure.

Thanks to overwhelming support from citizens and community leaders, this legislation has seen steady progress but now faces strong opposition. Corporate lobbyists representing the confinement industry are actively opposing this legislation

This bill has been sent to a sub-committee. Members of that committee are Mike Reasoner (D-chair), Delores Mertz (D), Helen Miller (D), Jack Drake (R) and Steve Olson (R). We need your help to clean up Iowa's water and air. Lack of oversight and regulation of CAFOs will affect the state of Iowa for generations to come!

We need to inundate the Statehouse with calls and e-mail the legislative leaders who control the fate of this bill. Please call or write. If your representative isn't on one of the sub-committees, you can still call or write Rep. Pat Murphy (House Speaker), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (House Majority Leader) or Senator Mike Gronstal (Senate Majority Leader). Everyone needs to contact those three leaders. In addition, contact your local reps and encourage them to urge the committee members to pass the CAFO bill (HF 873).

CAFO Regulation – HF 873

Agriculture Sub-Committee:

Rep. Mike Reasoner (D)
House District 95 – Union County
Mike.Reasoner@legis.state.ia.us
Home Telephone: 641-782-2693

Dolores Mertz (D)
House District 8 – Kossuth County
Dolores.Mertz@legis.state.ia.us
Home Telephone: 515-887-2952

Rep. Helen Miller (D)
House District 49 - Webster County
Helen.Miller@legis.state.ia.us

Rep. Jack Drake (R)
House District 57 -- Pottawattamie
Jack.Drake@legis.state.ia.us
Home Telephone: 712-784-3538

Rep. Steve Olson (R)
House District 83 – Clinton County
Steven.Olson@legis.state.ia.us
Home Telephone: 563-659-9096

Call your local reps and ask them to urge committee members and House leaders to pass this bill! Click here to find your legislator and send a message. Please call or email TODAY!!

ACTION ALERT!!!

Iowa needs Environmentally-friendly guidelines for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. If You Are Concerned about Factory Farms in Iowa, Your Action Is Needed Today!