It’s simple to email your Washington State legislators to ask them to support bills to keep us safe from sewage sludge.
Just copy the following text, then enter your address in the form below it and you will land on an OpenStates page with links to your legislators’ email addresses (opens in new window). Use a subject line like “No More Sewage Sludge on Ag Land” and paste in the message.
Dear Legislator,
We need the following legislation. Please sponsor bills in the 2019 legislative session:
1) To ban the land-application of sewage sludge;
2) To get safety warning labels on all products that contain biosolids;
3) To label foods that were grown using sewage sludge.2019 is the year Washington citizens take sewage sludge off our kitchen tables and put it on the legislative table. We won’t accept the dumping of sewage sludge on agricultural land. Be ready, we’re going to bring it into the public policy conversation in a big way.
Way back in 2002, the National Academies of Science National Research Council issued a report on a biosolids research study, funded by EPA, which concluded: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standards that govern using treated sewage sludge on soil are based on outdated science… The agency should update its standards using improved methods for assessing health risks, and should further study whether treated sewage sludge causes health problems for workers who apply it to land and for residents who live nearby… More rigorous enforcement of the standards is needed as well;”
Now, sixteen years later, the Environmental Protection Agency’s own Office of Inspector General published a new report: “EPA Unable to Assess the Impact of Hundreds of Unregulated Pollutants in Land-Applied Biosolids on Human Health and the Environment.” In it, the OIG complained that the EPA isn’t making the public aware that “potentially harmful and unregulated pollutants,” such as pharmaceuticals, steroids and flame retardants, are present in biosolids.
https://tinyurl.com/2018-epa-oig
Clearly the EPA, which sets the standards for the states, has dropped the ball and has not responded to these concerns.
What the science says, but the regulators refuse to heed, is that disposal of sewage sludge on land where we grow our food cannot be considered “safe.”
That’s why now it’s up to the state legislature to step up to protect public health and the environment. Sponsor a bill today!
Find your Washington State Legislators:
Enter your address on one line, e.g. ‘1234 Something St., Somecity, WA 12345’
- Andy Billig
- Ann Rivers
- Annette Cleveland
- Barbara Bailey
- Bob Hasegawa
- Brad Hawkins
- Christine Rolfes
- Curtis King
- David Frockt
- Dean Takko
- Doug Ericksen
- Guy Palumbo
- Hans Zeiger
- Jamie Pedersen
- Jan Angel
- Jeannie Darneille
- Jim Honeyford
- Joe Fain
- John Braun
- John McCoy
- Judy Warnick
- Karen Keiser
- Keith Wagoner
- Kevin Ranker
- Kevin Van De Wege
- Lisa Wellman
- Lynda Wilson
- Manka Dhingra
- Maralyn Chase
- Mark Miloscia
- Mark Mullet
- Mark Schoesler
- Marko Liias
- Maureen Walsh
- Michael Baumgartner
- Mike Padden
- Patty Kuderer
- Phil Fortunato
- Randi Becker
- Rebecca Saldaña
- Reuven Carlyle
- Sam Hunt
- Sharon Brown
- Sharon Nelson
- Shelly Short
- Steve Conway
- Steve Hobbs
- Steve O'Ban
- Tim Sheldon
- Jim Walsh
- Steve Kirby
- Bill Jenkin
- Laurie Dolan
- Laurie Jinkins
- David Taylor
- Pat Sullivan
- Drew Hansen
- Mike Sells
- Larry Springer
- Brandon Vick
- Luanne Van Werven
- Steve Bergquist
- Gerry Pollet
- Kristine Lytton
- Roger Goodman
- Brad Klippert
- Dick Muri
- Timm Ormsby
- Mike Steele
- Terry Nealey
- Brian Blake
- Bob McCaslin
- Marcus Riccelli
- Larry Haler
- Gina Mosbrucker
- Steve Tharinger
- Noel Frame
- Cary Condotta
- Jacquelin Maycumber
- Matt Shea
- Frank Chopp
- Eileen Cody
- Eric Pettigrew
- Melanie Stambaugh
- Zack Hudgins
- Tina Orwall
- John Lovick
- Ruth Kagi
- David Sawyer
- Tom Dent
- Bruce Chandler
- Judy Clibborn
- Vicki Kraft
- Joan McBride
- Mike Chapman
- Mark Harmsworth
- Joe Schmick
- Beth Doglio
- Monica Jurado Stonier
- Mike Volz
- Paul Graves
- Joe Fitzgibbon
- Joyce McDonald
- Christine Kilduff
- Jeff Holy
- Mike Pellicciotti
- Jesse Young
- Dan Kristiansen
- Vincent Buys
- Michelle Caldier
- Norm Johnson
- Dan Griffey
- Carolyn Eslick
- Ed Orcutt
- Joel Kretz
- Gael Tarleton
- Cindy Ryu
- Kristine Reeves
- June Robinson
- Dave Hayes
- Andrew Barkis
- Tana Senn
- Sharon Tomiko Santos
- Paul Harris
- Lillian Ortiz-Self
- Javier Valdez
- Vandana Slatter
- Mark Hargrove
- Richard DeBolt
- Sharon Wylie
- Matt Manweller
- Mary Dye
- Jeff Morris
- Shelley Kloba
- Strom Peterson
- J.T. Wilcox
- Mia Gregerson
- Drew Stokesbary
- Norma Smith
- Jake Fey
- Liz Pike
- Drew MacEwen
- Derek Stanford
- Nicole Macri
- Jay Rodne
- Morgan Irwin
- Sherry Appleton
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