From the Sierra Club:
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At a recent public hearing in rural Nebraska on the expansion of a huge hog-feeding operation, Sierra Club member Rosalie Gabel stood up holding a ziplock bag. Gabel, 70, had joined the Club a few years earlier, after the factory farm, with its open manure lagoon, moved in nearby. The bag contained a dish towel she had hung on her clothesline, clean. But when she took the towel out, the stench was so overwhelming that the county attorney tried to grab it from her and force it back into the bag.
Gabel and her neighbors live with that extreme air pollution every day because the nation's environmental laws can no longer guarantee their protection. The Bush administration and the radical right in Congress are turning back the clock on modern pollution control, while trying to strip citizens of their power to stop them.
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