USCC Members Visit the Capitol

USCC members and staff made another trip to the US Capitol in April to move forward our federal legislative priorities: the COMPOST Act, the newly re-introduced Senate version of the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act and PFAS CERCLA exemption/research (see the related PFAS story later in this newsletter).
 
We were joined by numerous members who either traveled to D.C. (Noel Lyons from McGill Compost, Christina Piocosta-Lahue from Vivaria, and Brian Orrock from Spotsylvania County) or "zoomed in” for a virtual meeting (Adam Brummond from ReturnCo, Mike Johnson from Heartland F/S, Shannon Pinc from Natureworks, Ginny Black from MNCC/Black Gold, and Marshall Hall from Natural Organic Process Enterprises).
 
We are still receiving feedback from those visits, and we thank all of our members. As constituents, they led the meetings, voicing eloquently and from their heart their reasons for being in the compost industry. "Those voices do so much more to move the needle than ours do as staff or lobbyists,” said Linda Norris-Waldt, advocacy director for USCC. "We are looking forward to more opportunities for this kind of engagement.” Indeed, in the coming weeks USCC is contacting specific members from districts where we are targeting a Member of Congress who can influence our legislative priorities for a virtual meeting. We have already worked with Steve Callis of Missouri and Wayne Koeckeritz of Tennessee.