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EPA Issues Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on CAFOs: Comments due by April 7th

CAFOs Hearing on Capitol Hill

NCIFAP (National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production) Public Meetings on CAFOs

Federal Farm Bill Update

Dangerous CAFOs Legislation

Action Alert: CAFO amendment to energy bill

EPA and USDA to study impact of winter manure spreading and runoff

Ohio Grassroots Group Joins Network in Fight Against CAFOs

This News Just In On Capitol Hill CAFO Bills

CWN Letter re HR4341/S3681

Faulty Economic Analysis used to develop EPA’s Proposed CAFO Rule

CWN's CAFOs Mini-Caucus on November 13-14

Congress Considers Bills that will Harm Clean Water by Exempting Factory Farms from Superfund

CWN Comments to Oppose Legislation to Exempt Livestock Manure From CERCLA

Group Sign-on Letter Sent to Congress Opposing Bills that Exempt CAFOs from CERCLA Liability

Final Group Sign-on Letter to Congress Opposing Bills to Exempt CAFOs from CERCLA Liability

Fact Sheets & Reports

FILM: Living a Nightmare: Animal Factories in Michigan
http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/nightmare_documentary.asp
The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club produced a 24-minute documentary about the pollution from factory farms. Click on the link above to view the film or read a summary.

Giving Away the Farm: Why US EPA Should Reject the Ohio Department of Agriculture's Bid to Administer the Clean Water Act
http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pub397.cfm

In October 2006, the Environmental Integrity Project released this report detailing problems with the Ohio Deparment of Agriculture's enforcement and permitting of CAFO's and argues against US EPA authorizing ODA to issue and enforce Clean Water Act permits.

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