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Very early in the morning on April 20, the legislature adjourned. See a summary of their work.

Bills moving through the Iowa legislature call for a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds majority of the house and senate in order to pass an income tax increase; a decrease would need a simple majority, plus it would require a...

A bill was introduced to amend Iowa's constitution to require a single income tax rate

The House and Senate passed a bill that requires DNR to research and develop recommendations for the accessibility of people with disabilities in state parks and public recreation. Now it is up to the Governor to sign the bill.

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

A bill is being considered that would allow Iowa to join the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact.

Sierra Club Statement on EPA Rule to Use Superfund Law to Clean Up PFAS Pollution

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...

A bill would repeal every single rule every 5 years and then have the rules re-instated through rulemaking, a lengthy, expensive process

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...