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Tag Archives: EPA
What If WOTUS Definitions Change?
This is the beginning of the final push toward the general election, with 37 days to go. Democratic victories are in the air, and the scent is intoxicating. But we can’t get drunk on victory until it actually materializes. Keep … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Environment
Tagged clean water, Clean Water Act, Environment, EPA, Waters of the US, WOTUS
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Power Plants And The EPA
On Monday, Sept. 14, the Environmental Protection Agency did two things that were expected since President Trump was re-elected. EPA finalized repeal of the Biden-era greenhouse-gas standards for coal-fired power plants and newly built natural-gas power plants. It also proposed … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Clean Air Act, coal fired power plants, Environment, EPA
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Join The Fight Against Liquid Manure In Iowa’s Water
ACTION ALERT FROM CCI: We’re in this fight because Iowa has over 10,000 factory farms that produce over 22 billion gallons of toxic liquid manure. Manure that is dumped untreated onto farm fields across the state and runs off into … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged corporate farming, EPA, factoray farms, Iowa CAFOs, Iowa water pollution
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Loebsack Still Working Hard For Iowa
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged EPA, Rep. Dave Loebsack, Small Refinery Exemptions, SRE
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While Your Attention Is Diverted ……
with the impeachment hearings our environment is taking another wallop from the EPA. As if that wasn’t bad enough a new report raises alarms about insect collapse. The current administration is hard at work 24 hours a day 7 days … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Environment
Tagged A Warning, bee collapse, David Cay Johnston, EPA, EPA regulation rollback, EPA rules, insect collapse
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Tell The EPA: Don’t Relax Protections From Cancer-Causing Coal Ash
Action alert from Iowa Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Question: What would be worse than over 100 toxic coal ash storage sites lying in high-risk flood zones? Answer: Loosening the laws that protect our health and communities from contamination by … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged Coal ash, EPA, Iowa PIRG, Toxic waste
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On The Comeback Trail – Asbestos
The Environmental Protection Agency is not what it once was as the Trump administration finishes year two. In addition to public renunciation of the words “climate change,” combined with promotion of fossil fuels which contribute to global warming, Trump’s minions … Continue reading
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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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
Posted in Environment
Tagged air pollution, Clean Power Plan, climate change, COP21, environment, EPA, public health
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Will Iowa’s Contaminated Drinking Water Lead To Statewide Public Health Crisis?
Citizens for a Healthy Iowa Elections matter – and the 2014 election results could mean disaster for efforts to clean up & protect Iowa’s rivers, lakes & streams …. our sources of clean drinking water. Senator-Elect Joni Ernst has said … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 Election Campaign, Branstad, Environment, Environment Iowa, Factory Farms (CAFOs)
Tagged Branstad administration, clean water in Iowa, EPA, Iowa water contamination, joni ernst
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