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In 2010, 63 percent of Iowa voters gave overwhelming support to a constitutional amendment that would allow increased investment in Iowa’s parks, recreation and clean water through a 3/8 cent sales tax. All that is needed is for the sales tax to be...

Joint testimony was filed today in MidAmerican’s Wind PRIME docket before the Iowa Utilities Board. MidAmerican’s Wind PRIME project, which would add 2,042 MW of wind and 50 MW of solar, relies on the company’s plans to continue operating 5 large...

Read about our work on Clean Up MidAm

Energy burden is the percentage of a family’s income that is spent on energy bills each year, an often under-reported symptom of racial and economic inequities.

A new coalition of organizations and Iowans wants to hold MidAmerican Energy accountable for its greenwashing and lack of climate goals

A coalition of organizations and concerned Iowans launched the “Clean Up MidAm” campaign today to hold MidAmerican Energy accountable and ask for a public plan to close its Iowa coal plants by 2030. While MidAmerican Energy advertises a 100%...

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The Governor’s Carbon Sequestration Task Force and its Agriculture Work Group are considering a proposal to modify the Maximum Return to Nitrogen, which determines how much nitrogen should be applied to Iowa's corn fields. Although one of the...

Estimates are that implementing the Nutrient Reduction Strategy will cost $5 billion. Finding money to pay for it has been a challenge. The Sierra Club is suggesting a Nutrient Management Strategy fee which would be paid for by the integrators -...

As painful as it may be, it is wise to plan for the future in the event of significantly reduced demand for ethanol. The shifts happening in the ethanol industry and the side-effects on the farmers are difficult to think about. But we do need to...