The 2009 Endangerment Finding declares six greenhouse gases ‘threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.’ Yet EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says, ‘We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age.’
The legal victory could pave the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on Roundup, which has generated years of litigation alleging it caused cancer.
In a nutshell, the SCOTUS case is putting Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate green gas emissions on trial and how the high court rules could handcuff federal agencies, including those near and dear to agriculture — hello USDA and FDA — in consequential ways.
One of my co-workers at the Des Moines Register was Gene Raffensperger, an excellent reporter with a delicious sense of humor.
When Raff was working on a dull story,
The death of Congressman John Lewis last Friday night accomplished what police officers with their billy clubs and white mobs with their fists and pipes never were able to achieve:
The exemption leaves untaxed for life nearly $630 million in Kansas wind farm equipment, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue. If it were on the tax rolls, that equipment would generate around $82 million a year in additional revenue for the 24 rural counties with wind farms.
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller was a guest on a recent Ethical Perspectives on the News program KCRG-TV-9 along with Tim Hagle, professor of political science at the University of Iowa; and Jesse Case of Teamsters Local 238. The host and moderator was Karl Cassell.
Gov. Terry Branstad says Iowa is getting a good deal with China despite presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump wanting to declare China a currency manipulator and negotiate a new trade deal with the country that benefits the United States.
