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Congress Wants to Use the PERMIT Act to Gut the Clean Water Act

Posted on December 11, 2025 by Trish Nelson

ACTION ALERT from Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors (JFAN)! Congress Wants to Use the PERMIT Act to Gut the Clean Water Act. Don’t Let Them. The PERMIT Act (H.R. 3898), dubbed the “Permission to Pollute” Act, is a set of … Continue reading →

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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Clean Water)

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Trish Nelson

  From At the Iowa Farm Table Podcast: attheiowafarmtable.substack.com/this-is-why-we-cant-have-clean-water “The fact that we’ve engineered the landscape in order to move water out of the ground quickly is called tiling. Tile is pipe 4 feet below the surface. That tile is … Continue reading →

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How Volunteers Are Defending Iowa Lakes

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Iowa Driftless Water Defenders asked for volunteers to visit one of Iowa’s endangered lakes over Memorial Day weekend and make a video about their personal relationship to the lake in order to highlight the loss of Iowa’s public waters to … Continue reading →

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Urgent Clean Water Action Alert

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Trish Nelson

Please share this action alert from Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors (JFAN). Factory farms have gotten away with a slap on the wrist for polluting our water for far too long. Our legislators have the opportunity to help enforce accountability on polluters … Continue reading →

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