The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, or MOFGA, claims that federal law requires the EPA to regulate toxic pollutants in sludge and take steps to prevent them from harming humans and the environment. Its failure to do so has put us all at risk, said MOFGA Director Sarah Alexander.
“If the EPA had been regulating appropriately, many of our farmers wouldn’t be facing the harm they are today,” Alexander said. “We demand that the EPA do the work required under the Clean Water Act and stop allowing these toxic chemicals to contaminate the U.S. food and water supply.”
MOFGA’s 15-member board unanimously voted earlier this month to take their complaint to court after learning that Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, an organization that focuses on illegal government actions, had filed a similar intent to sue in February.
