HR 848, the  Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, is intended to “ to clarify the intent of Congress with respect to the purpose and scope of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, specifically that it was not intended to regulate animal or crop waste, manure, or fertilizer, or constituents derived from such sources;”  https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/848/text

This bill is intended to make sure that manure from animal factories will never be governed by the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the act that all other industry must conform to.  It will ensure that corporate farms can dump manure onto fields where it will run off into our water supplies, causing disasters like the Toledo water contamination, and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Calling all Water Protectors to make some calls to stop this bad law.  

Here are some talking points:
*Water is Life.
*There are ways to farm that do not include destroying the natural environment.
*This bill is the opposite of what we need to do.  Animal factory waste should be treated as the industrial waste that it is, and should be regulated by the Solid Waste Disposal Act.  
*This bill is corporate welfare, and it passes on the hidden cost of cheap food to the taxpayers.

For Republican Sponsors and Committee Members:
*Do you think you can continue to hold your majority when you are allowing the destruction of our air and water?
*Please do not pit profit against our lives.

For Democrat Sponsors:

*If you wonder why so many of us are becoming radicalized, it is because you are selling us out.  *How can you claim to speak for us when you are complicit in making our water undrinkable?

HR 848 was introduced in February and was sent to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where it still is.  Contact information for the sponsors of the bill, as well as for members of the House who sit on that committee follows.  Please ask all of them to refuse to pass the bill out of committee.