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| Industrial facilities dumped nearly three and a half million pounds of toxic chemicals into Iowa’s waterways, over 700,000 pounds of which were discharged into the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, according to a report released today by Environment Iowa titled, Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act | |
| Des Moines, Iowa – Today the Iowa House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to provide greatly increased funding to Iowa’s waterways, land, wildlife and parks. | |
| Des Moines, IA— More than 55.5 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Iowa discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act Compliance, a new report released today by Environment Iowa. | |
| The Iowa House Environmental Protection Committee today voted to approve a bill that will protect Iowa’s air and water quality and rural quality of life from the livestock industry. | |
| Iowa’s regulations for industrial livestock operations are failing, according to analysis of new data by Environment Iowa. The data highlights the failure of the master matrix application to protect our air, water, and nearby communities from new industrial livestock confinements. | |