Tell EPA: Cut climate-warming pollution from the meat and dairy industry

Billions of animals are crammed onto factory farms — producing enormous amounts of waste and climate-warming methane emissions. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has neglected to regulate the industrial meat and dairy industries, letting them spew methane emissions and other pollutants completely unchecked.

These polluting factory farms are raking in profits without repercussions and increasingly contributing to the climate catastrophe. The EPA must crackdown on factory farming and protect people, animals, and the planet.

Tell the EPA to protect people and the planet by treating factory farms like the industrial polluters they are!

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Dear EPA Administrator Regan:

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Factory farming helps drive the climate crisis, harms environmental justice communities, creates breeding grounds for the next pandemic, and perpetuates intolerable animal suffering.

I urge you to regulate methane emissions from industrial hog and dairy operations and reject factory farm gas. Factory farm gas — the burning of methane sourced from liquefied manure — is really just dirty energy pushed by Big Oil & Gas and Big Ag corporations as “renewable” to greenwash their fossil fuel climate pollution.

The EPA has failed to treat industrial animal agriculture like the climate polluter it is. It now has an opportunity to correct course by listing industrial dairy and hog operations as sources that cause and contribute significantly to dangerous pollution under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

According to EPA's own data, the industrial dairy and hog sector accounts for 33 percent of agricultural methane emissions and 13 percent of U.S. methane emissions. Yet, it has neglected to exercise authority to regulate the animal agriculture sector, letting it spew methane emissions and other pollutants unchecked.

I further urge you to reject factory farm gas. Factory farm gas will incentivize more factory farming and the air and water pollution that comes with it. Communities living near factory farms are often low-income communities and communities of color, making this a crucial environmental justice issue.

Please grant the Public Justice Methane Petition to regulate methane emissions from industrial dairy and hog operations and ensure that factory-farmed methane gas is not accepted as a solution to methane emissions.

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