Senate Blocks Extension of Clean Energy Program Critical to Iowa 6/11/2008

We thank Senator Tom Harkin for supporting the clean energy and a green economy today and are disappointed that Senator Chuck Grassley, who authored this legislation in 1992 chose not to support it today.

The Power of Efficiency: Opportunities to Save Money, Reduce Pollution and Expand the Economy in the Midwest 4/02/2008

Energy efficiency measures offer a cost effective and simple opportunity to solve the state’s biggest energy challenges. By reducing demand for electricity and natural gas, energy efficiency measures can prevent the need to build new power plants and ease pressure on limited fuel supplies, bringing a variety of benefits for the economy and for the environment of the Midwest.

Clean Energy For America: Why the 44th President Must Put America on the Clean Energy Path 12/28/2007

America has the technological know-how and the resources to move away from dependence on dirty and dangerous energy supplies. With the right goals and polices, the next president of the United States can provide America with the much needed leadership to achieve a clean energy future. This document explains why the next president must act immediately to address America’s growing energy crisis, and lays out a reasonable yet ambitious course for meeting America’s future energy needs with clean, renewable energy.

Critics push to improve Iowa matrix 9/08/2008

"...Iowa environmentalists say its time for the 5-year-old evaluation plan to get its own reconstruction."

Group Wants Clean Energy Pledges 12/29/2007

A national environmental group at a Des Moines event Friday called on presidential candidates to push for energy conservation, "green" alternative energy and a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. Environment America, which has an Environment Iowa branch in Des Moines, said the next president must make clean energy a top priority. The group listed clean-energy priorities it plans to push in Iowa, site of next week's presidential caucuses, and the early primary states.

Half of plants break sewage laws 11/10/2007

More than half of the major Iowa industrial and municipal facilities violated their sewage permits in 2005 by discharging more pollution than allowed, Environment Iowa reported Thursday.