Real Results For Iowa's Environment
Repower Iowa with wind energy
In Iowa and across our nation, workers are erecting wind turbines that will supply clean electricity to millions of homes, schools and offices. Iowa leads the nation in wind energy use, and now we’re urging President Obama and Congress to repower our country by expanding clean energy nationwide.
End our addiction to fossil fuels
What’s the cheapest, cleanest, fastest way to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? Make products and buildings more energy-efficient. The changes we’ve won will shave at least $22 billion off Americans’ energy bills in the next decade.
Find solutions to global warming
As President Obama races to solve the climate crisis, he can look for ideas and inspiration to Iowa where we’ve shaped plans to cap and reduce the carbon footprint of power plants and other polluters by shifting electricity from dirty coal to clean wind.
Build the clean cars of the future
Imagine if cars that get better than 40 miles per gallon were the norm. Our advocacy helped push through the first increase in the gas mileage standard in more than 30 years.
Preserving Iowa’s water, land and wildlife
In 2009, Environment Iowa’s campaign to amend the state constitution and establish a trust fund dedicated to environmental protection and outdoor recreation cleared the Legislature. Now, voters will have a chance to approve the measure in November 2010.
Restore our rivers to health
Our staff and supporters have helped win the highest level of protection for more than [600] miles of rivers, streams and other drinking water sources.
Flooding linked to agriculture
Thanks to our work advising the governor’s Rebuild Iowa Office, the state has agreed that flood-response measures should include agricultural as land use as one underlying cause. We made the case for plans that decreasing pollution from the agricultural sector is also a way to mitigate the flooding that our state has seen in recent years.
Keep our parks clean & green
Our partners in states from California to Florida have fought for, and won, laws, policies and ballot initiatives to keep their state parks open and raised at least $850 million to preserve farmland and forests. These successes give us here in Iowa a sound precedent for protecting our own parks—from the Maquoketa Caves to Big Creek.
Clean, renewable, homegrown energy
Our report, “Clean Energy, Bright Future,” shows that renewable energy and energy-efficiency programs will create jobs, boost wages, cut pollution, and save consumers money on their energy bills.
Bring change to Washington
In 2008, voters elected the most pro-environment president and Congress in recent memory. We did our part by in Iowa and across the country, persuading voters in order to elect Barack Obama and 29 pro-environment congressional candidates.
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