ACT NOW (AGAIN!): Bill to Gut the MPCA Citizens' Board is on the MN House Floor Friday

Legislation that Guts the Power of the MPCA Citizens' Board
will be on the MN House Floor on Friday

Contact your state Representative today and tell them to stand up to corporate special interests and keep the MPCA Citizens’ Board strong. The House Omnibus Environment Finance Bill contains provisions that gut the authority of the MPCA Citizens’ Board and it will be on the House floor Friday, April 24.

Corporate ag is attacking the MPCA Citizens’ Board. In August 2014, neighbors to a proposed 8,850-cow factory farm in Stevens County called on the MPCA Citizens' Board to protect their community. Among neighbors’ concerns was that each year this factory farm would have used close to 100 million gallons of water and generated over 75 million gallons of liquid manure. The MPCA Citizens’ Board listened and for the first time ever ordered an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a factory farm. However, that’s one EIS too many for corporate agriculture interests.

Bobby King
Land Stewardship Project
612-722-6377