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To All,
Mark Your Calendars for a Clean Water Network:
CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING & RECEPTION
Factory Farms: The Dark Side
First briefing in CWN’s National Series on
“America’s Water Crisis”
WHEN: JUNE 2, 2009, 2-4 PM (Please note a reception will follow the panel discussion to welcome EPA’s Assistant Administrator of Water Nominee Peter Silva)
WHERE: 304 Cannon House Office Building
Come to the first installment in the Clean Water Network’s important series on America’s Water Crisis. A panel of experts will talk about the impacts of factory farms (CAFOs-Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) on our nation’s precious water resources.Topics will include legislative, regulatory and litigation updates and discussion on the public health implications from CAFOs including possible connections to Swine Flu. Panelists will also discuss the ramifications of providing federal and state subsidies to the CAFO industry, with almost no assessment of the environmental effects of CAFOs on individuals and communities.
Speakers: Keeve E. Nachman, PhD, MHS, Science Director for Food Production, Health and Environment,
Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Martha Noble, Senior Policy Associate and Attorney, Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Clean Water Network Vice-President of the Board of Directors Eric Schaeffer, Executive Director, Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Former
director of EPA’s Office of Civil Enforcement, and also of EPA’s Pollution Prevention Policy Staff. To RSVP and to get more information please email natalieroy@cleanwaternetwork.org
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