Welcome to the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club
The Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club's members are approximately 7,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
The Iowa Chapter will take action so all Iowans can enjoy clean air, clean water, clean and renewable energy, expansion and protection of natural areas and wildlife, and a government that represents people not polluters.
What you can do to help the environment
- Attend the Lunch and Learn livestream every Friday at noon. See us on Facebook at "Sierra Club Iowa Chapter".
- See past recordings of our webinars, lunch and learns, and presentations
- Read the Iowa Sierra Club newsletter
- Stay in touch with your legislators, even after the session has ended. Issues to discuss with legislators
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Raising property taxes on forest & fruit tree reservations
April 18, 2024
A bill moving the legislature would allow counties to decide to assess property taxes on forest reservations and fruit tree reservations or give them a tax exemption
CAFO rules
April 15, 2024
The Environmental Protection Commission will hear comments and vote on a weaker set of rules for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), which will be detrimental to Iowa's water quality. The proposed rules ignore a majority of input from...
Repealing all rules
April 14, 2024
A bill would repeal every single rule every 5 years and then have the rules re-instated through rulemaking, a lengthy, expensive process
Single income tax rate
April 12, 2024
A bill was introduced to amend Iowa's constitution to require a single income tax rate
East Nishnabotna fish kill
April 10, 2024
Sierra Club Iowa Chapter Director Pam Mackey-Taylor sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 Administrator requesting EPA to engage in enforcement actions against NEW Cooperative, Inc. for its recent release of 256,000 gallons...