Clean Water Program Reports

Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act	2009-10-21
Industrial facilities dumped 232 million pounds of toxic chemicals into American waterways in 2007, including 3.5 million pounds of toxics into Iowa waterways, according to the federal government’s Toxic Release Inventory.
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Troubled Waters	2007-11-10
An analysis of 2005 Clean Water Act compliance
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Failure of the Master Matrix: Industrial Livestock Operations Still Harming Air, Water, and Communities	2007-02-22
Iowans are concerned about our air and water quality, especially with regard to industrial livestock operations. Policy makers created the Master Matrix in 2002 to help protect our air and water from these operations. The matrix is a list of questions used to assess the impacts of a proposed confinement on air and water quality. New data shows that the matrix is failing to protect our environment, but key policy improvements can change this.
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