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Category Archives: Environment
Iowa And The Clean Power Plan
(Editor’s Note: The Iowa Environmental Council released the following Aug. 3. The coming debate will be about whether or not, and how, Iowa complies with the new rules. The press release outlines what they are). Clean Power Plan presents opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Iowa Environmental Council
Tagged Clean Power Plan, environment, EPA, Iowa Environmental Council
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Clean Power Plan Adopted Today
Today the Obama administration is expected to formally adopt the Clean Power Plan with targeted reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants of 32 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. If readers care about mitigating the causes … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Clean Power Plan, CO2 emissions, environment, global warming, Road to Paris
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Iowa Farmers Offer Cover Crop Webinar
Practical Farmers of Iowa, Cover Crop Solutions and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Present Webinar on the Basics of Cover Crops Thursday, July 30, at 1 p.m. Mark your calendar for a webinar to be held on July 30 that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Sustainability
Tagged Cover Crop Solutions, cover crops, farming, Iowa Farm Bureau, Practical Farmers of Iowa, sustainability
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Ed Fallon On The Road To Paris
D-Day March & Pilgrimage for Climate Action LA to DC walkers continue trek to Paris for UN Climate Summit DES MOINES — On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, two men who last year walked across America for action on climate change … Continue reading
Posted in Ed Fallon, Environment
Tagged ActOnClimate, COP21, Ed Fallon, environment, Road to Paris
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Loras College To Host Discussion Of Laudato Si'
Academic experts to highlight pope’s ecology letter “Understanding the Pope’s Encyclical on the Environment” will be the subject of a public presentation and group discussion at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 23, at Loras College in the campus center. Father Robert … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Local Events
Tagged environment, Laudato Si', local events, Pope Francis
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Iowa's Algae Blooms
Iowa recreational lakes have become a nutrient-rich soup in which blue-green algae thrives. The Iowa Environmental Council won’t say what I will: nutrient runoff from agriculture, and to a much lesser extent from home lawn applications, is a key ingredient … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa Environmental Council, water quality
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Going Solar In Iowa
(Editor’s Note: This is an update of a previous post on solar energy). Climate Reality Leadership Corps founder and former vice president Al Gore gave his slide show, an updated version of the one used in the film An Inconvenient … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Progressive Community
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, global warming, Solar Energy, Solar Power
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Iowa Has A Water Problem
DES MOINES—”We have a water problem,” Mayor Frank Cownie said at the state convention of the League of Women Voters of Iowa on Saturday. Like all municipalities, the Des Moines Water Works must comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Clean Water Act, Des Moines Water Works, environment, Iowa water quality, nitrogen runoff, water quality
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Reducing Air Pollution Matters
We hear plenty of political chatter including the words “climate change.” This discussion among politicians isn’t about science. It’s about the power of money in politics. The tactics of the moneyed class have been to attack the messengers who would … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Clean Power Plan, climate change, COP21, environment, EPA, public health
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Letter From NCEL Re: Fast Track Authority
Even though the boat may have sailed in the US senate, there still may be time to help stop it in the House. The following press release and letter were sent by the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators including Iowa … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Greed, Environment, Environment Iowa, Iowa Legislature, Iowa legislature 2015, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Tagged fast track, ISDS, Isenhart, TTIP
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