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Know your Factory Farm Five: Brent Rastetter
Five out of the eight Environmental Protection Commissioners for Iowa own, or have a direct financial interest, in factory farms. Despite this blatant conflict of interest, they sit on the Environmental Protection Commission (EPC).
read moreKnow your Factory Farm Five: Max Smith
Five out of the eight Environmental Protection Commissioners for Iowa own, or have a direct financial interest, in factory farms. Despite this blatant conflict of interest, they sit on the Environmental Protection Commission (EPC).
read moreCCI Action Fund Members Deliver “Clean Water Now” Letter To Branstad’s Urbandale Campaign Office
More than two dozen Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund (Iowa CCI Action Fund) members entered Governor Terry Branstad’s Urbandale campaign office today and delivered a letter demanding Branstad support a strong Clean Water Act work plan agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
read moreThis is why elections matter
Today’s Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) meeting is an important example of why elections matter. Today the commission - stacked most recently by Governor Branstad’s factory farm appointees – voted not to enact a long overdue ban on applying liquid [read factory farm] manure to soybean ground.
Without a doubt, whoever is elected to the statehouse Nov. 6 will have a say in the role of public oversight of factory farms.
Do you know where your statehouse candidates stand on this issue?