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We kicked off 2024 with a monthly webinar series for our membership here in Iowa! In case you missed them live, you can still see them.

Ask the Environmental Protection Commission to refer NEW Cooperative to the Attorney General for stiff penalties for its fertilizer leak and fish kill in the Nishnabotna River.

Environmental Protection Agency finalized four separate standards that will slash air, water, and carbon pollution from power plants.

Bills moving through the Iowa legislature call for a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds majority of the house and senate in order to pass an income tax increase; a decrease would need a simple majority, plus it would require a...

A bill was introduced to amend Iowa's constitution to require a single income tax rate

Sierra Club Statement on EPA Rule to Use Superfund Law to Clean Up PFAS Pollution

Sierra Club Iowa Chapter Director Pam Mackey-Taylor sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 Administrator requesting EPA to engage in enforcement actions against NEW Cooperative, Inc. for its recent release of 256,000 gallons...

A carbon dioxide pipeline in Louisiana ruptured on April 3, 2024.

The federal Inflation Reduction Act includes a rebate program that funds homeowner's energy efficiency updates and electrification projects

3 Iowa cities – Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City - submitted their climate action plans to the Environmental Protection Agency. Implementation grants will be awarded later.