Betty I wish I could have talked to you more in Washington,DC. We need to meet half way and see what we can get done to protect our farmers. You are an inspiration!!

Betty, I share your concerns completely. I am also from Iowa and see the bad effects daily. Keep up the good work.

I don't have any lung disease,, but I certainly do know and appreciate the value of clean air. Where would these corporations--who fill the air with toxic chemicals--be if they kill us off with their poisons. Who would they sell their goods and services to if we were all sick and dieing from breathing the air they poisoned. We need and we deserve clean air to breathe. So do our animals. Keep pushng them hard to get this accomplished. Thank you.

Betty, I fully support you and the EPA. Industries need to realize that people are the reason they are even in business. I live in Iowa and know exactly what you are standing for. Iowans, Americans, All Nations and animals all deserve clean air. Keep it up and know you are fighting the good fight. Thank You

I have just spent a week with a friend who was badly injured by the air pollution in the Huston, TX now the most polluted air. She has had to change her life because of this exposure during her adult years. It is not just children who acquire asthma during their lives. She had 2 visits to the ER during our time together. Thank you for your work! Keep us all focused on this need.

Godspeed Betty!

I support Betty Lord-Dinan. The importance of a safe environment cannot be underestimated

I fully support the efforts of the EPA to regulate industries that pollute Iowa's air.

I have worked in dental offices for 15 years and have had to quit working for general dental practices because my body cannot tolerate the exposure to mercury. My health suffered greatly, mostly with arthritis and very annoying nerve dis-function. The amount of mercury emitted by coal fired power plants in my home state of Iowa is 2 tons per year. That is considerably more than the mere amount of exposure I had from the dental offices. There is no fish in the state that is safe to eat. I spend $65 per month for 2 detoxifying supplements that I take 3 times a day to alleviate my neurological symptoms. When I do not detox every day, my symptoms come back immediately. Think about what this is doing to children and especially the developing unborn. For the sake of eliminating mercury in the air alone, we need strict and enforceable clean air laws.
The health care costs of disabled children is astronomical. All persons have the right to breath unpolluted air. Lets protect and preserve that right.

Thanks!

The people of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota now have an even greater concern with the proposed Hyperion Oil Refinery in southeast South Dakota. Since most of the wind blows to the south and east the people of Iowa will get the worst of the pollution. We need stronger action to stop this from happening.

Nothing is more important than clean air. Please help keep the EPA health protections to stay in effect.

I've been a health-conscious, environmentalist for several decades, reading the best, most scientific, objective printed word as well as T.V. documentaries and DVD's......in order to educate myself. And..... no matter how many times I am confronted by the blatant attempts of giant, agricultural corporations to sacrifice everyone's quality of life.....so that they may squeeze every last penny of profit out of their widespread dissemination of untested, toxic chemicals, it never ceases to appall, dismay and disgust me. Patriotism alone, should prevent this kind of behavior.....not to mention concern for their communities.

Ms. Lord-Dinan:
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Iowa's agricultural practices are not only horrendously cruel to animals, they are causing mega-pollution in this state. We know that poisons are finding their way into our ground water and into the air we breathe. If someone doubts this, have them drive by a confinement operation and breathe in. NO ONE has the right to pollute the air in the name of profits. All too often, the governing officials of this state side with big ag. Money talks. Well, we are talking back! Keep up the good work and know we are standing behind you, cheering you on!

God bless you for standing for all of us, Betty!

I support my ambassador 100%

I agree that to protect Iowans, we need the EPA's health protections to stay in effect. We cannot let these standards get watered or voted down.

Please, tell Congress: didn't vote for dirtier air!

During the EPA’s first 20 years alone, it prevented more than 200,000 premature deaths and almost 700,000 cases of chronic bronchitis by reducing dangerous air pollution. This needs to continue for the betterment of society and the future of our children. It is critical that the EPA continue its work to protect our health.

We need to get rid of the coal fired power plants and the chemicals that pollute our air and water.
They are not needed when there are other methods.
It is as simple as that.

Big Ag's corporate profits take priority over the People of Iowa? The People say NO!

The corporate-owned livestock industry cynically seeks to avoid taking any responsibility for the massive pollution with which they befoul our air and water, and the harm they thus cause to rural communities.

Iowans must band together to stop their diverse, greed-driven attempts to exempt the corporate livestock industry from their obligations to be good stewards of OUR land, water and air.

But we are helpless against these profiteers if the EPA doesn't back us up with stringent regulations and transparent polluter accountability!
Clean air and water = LIFE. There is no getting around that fact.

In Iowa, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and coal-fired power plants are major sources of air pollution. School nurses see an increase in asthmatic symptoms in children when they play outside where the air is polluted. When ammonia and chemicals are spread throughout the fields each spring, it affects the air quality and generates chemical run-off into streams and waterways.
To protect Iowans, we need the EPA's health protections to stay in effect. We cannot let these standards get watered or voted down.

Air pollution causes so many diseases from lung impairment to atherosclerosis. The gov;t does everything to keep citizens ignorant ot air quality such as the fact that the diesel engine was designed to run on vegetable oil instead of corporate diesel. Diesel fumes causes all sorts of diseases as the two mentioned above.

Thanks for carrying this important message on our behalf!

I live in Iowa where I am usually renting farm houses. I have sever asthma and can't live in town with buses, semi's, dryers venting, citronella and probably 100 other chemicals. The country side is a dangerous place also. They still do aerial field spraying, Neighboring farms product runoffs and the chemical in the dust that fills the air for weeks during harvest. So much more out there. We need help so thank you so much for what you do.

When I moved to Iowa from back east, I thought I was moving to a pristine countryside. I was dismayed to find pollution can be worse here than in big cities, because of the sprays, the coal-burning, the hog lots, and the fine dust from crops that blows loose for miles around.

Thank you for representing us in D.C.

Thank you, Betty, for all you do. The importance of a safe environment cannot be underestimated.

We must keep the health protections in force. Go Girl!

Good luck in D.C., Betty!