Newsroom For Tag "CAFOs"

After months of uncertainty, schedule for Agency rules review released

posted 3/14/2023
The Reynolds Administration recently released the schedule for state agencies, boards, and commissions, including the Iowa DNR, to review rules in their respective sections of Iowa Administrative Code. Executive Order 10 placed a moratorium on any new rulemaking as part of the Governor's larger government reorganization plan, which impacted the draft AFO siting rules IEC had been advocating for.

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Judge hears arguments in lawsuit to save Bloody Run

posted 2/2/2023
On January 20, 2023, a district court judge heard testimony in the Iowa Sierra Club's lawsuit charging the Iowa Department of Natural Resources with violating state law and departmental rules when approving Supreme Beef LLC's manure management plan. Guest writer Larry Stone provides an update following the hearing.

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IEC and coalition partners respond to DNR's draft CAFO rules

posted 10/18/2022
A coalition of environmental organizations filed official comments with the DNR today requesting DNR lower the allowable rates of manure applied to crops, increase protections for karst terrain, close loopholes that evade regulatory oversight, and retain the ability to stop high-risk facilities.

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CAFO regulations - Details make a difference when it comes to siting

posted 9/26/2022
IEC petitioned for revisions to animal feeding operation (AFO) siting rules last year, but the Environmental Protection Commission denied the request in part because DNR promised to initiate a more comprehensive rulemaking in 2022. DNR has released proposed updates to the state's AFO rules, with mostly tweaks. But Iowa's dismal water quality needs more than tweaks.

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IEC Reviewing Iowa DNR's Proposed Feedlot Rules

posted 8/16/2022
On August 12, 2022, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released proposed revisions of Iowa's animal feeding operation (AFO) rules for public comment.

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IEC and ELPC Call for DNR to Protect Floodplains from CAFO Pollution

posted 5/4/2022
The Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) filed a petition for rulemaking with the Iowa DNR's Environmental Protection Commission, seeking to adopt a floodplain map into state law. Since 2002, Iowa law has prohibited the development or expansion of CAFOs in the 100-year floodplain, but no floodplain map has been adopted, forcing the DNR to expend additional resources on siting requests.

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Report: Clean Water Act's Promises Half Kept at Half Century

posted 3/17/2022
A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project shows the promises of the Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, are only 50% met 50 years later. IEC's Water Program Associate Director Alicia Vasto participated in the report release, discussing the agricultural exemption in the CWA and the impact that has had on water quality in Iowa and the U.S.

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State Denies Petition to Protect Karst and Drinking Water: What's Next?

posted 3/8/2022
Last month the state Environmental Protection Commission denied IEC's petition for enhanced rules to protect drinking water from animal feedlot pollution in karst terrain after the DNR indicated the agency would include the proposals in a standard rule review. IEC looks at what's next for these important drinking water protections.

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EPC denies IEC, ELPC water quality petition

posted 2/15/2022
The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission today denied a petition for rules filed by the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) and Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) last year, ending a six-month review of the request to protect drinking water from feedlots. Instead, the Iowa DNR announced at the hearing that it intends to address the questions raised in the petition as part of a broader rulemaking process on siting issues.

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IEC, ELPC Petition for New Rules to Protect Drinking Water From CAFO Pollution

posted 8/11/2021
The Iowa Environmental Council and Environmental Law & Policy Center have filed a petition for rulemaking with Iowa's Environmental Protection Commission to protect drinking water, groundwater, and karst terrain from pollution. The rules would restrict development of large animal feeding operations in sensitive landscapes.

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