Taking on global warming
This spring, Gov. Chet Culver signed the first major bill, backed by Environment Iowa, to address global warming in Iowa.
The bill creates the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council to find policy solutions to global warming, sets up a tracking system for global warming pollution, and includes an assessment of global warming pollution in air quality permits. The Council is charged with considering all policies and strategies for reducing global warming pollution in Iowa in the short, mid and long-term, including one scenario for a 50 percent reduction by year 2050. The bill also establishes a greenhouse gas inventory within the Department of Natural Resources.
If we don’t change our policies, global warming will change the Iowa way of life.
