Tagged with Iowa 
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how will key senators vote on a climate bill?
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) [UPDATED] 2
Posted 1 month ago
In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Chuck Grassley dodges and weaves about climate science, says schemes to reduce greenhouse-gas emission amount to "a national energy tax," and calls for more renewable energy.
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Blowing smoke out his Grassley
Chuck Grassley does not believe in the threat of anthropogenic climate change 11
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago In a Tuesday conference call with Iowa agricultural reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered some state-of-the-art Republican doubletalk on climate change. This is worth reading in full, in part to admire the blithely inconsistent muddle of it all, but also in part to marvel at just how second-nature this line of dissembling has become. These talking points are echoed almost verbatim up and down the conservative food chain, all the way from bottom-feeders like Marc Morano to U.S. Senators. No conservative has to think on his feet about it, or craft his own careful line on it.
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Pedal Pushers
Iowa City needs bike sharing 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
An op-ed in the University of Iowa paper says the 80,000-person city needs bike sharing desperately -- and can do it better than big cities.
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Hizzoner's Progress
15 green-leaning mayors 17
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Global warming is a global problem -- but there ain't no global solution. That's why mayors across the U.S. are taking matters into their own hands.
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From Washers to Wind: Obama in Iowa 0
Posted 7 months agoYesterday was the 39th anniversary of Earth Day, and to mark the occasion President Obama was in Newton, Iowa, to speak about clean energy.
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Climate Central takes on Iowa corn 1
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An Iowa sustainable-ag legend speaks on her experience with the former governor 5
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Where There’s a Vilsack ...
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack chosen as Obama’s agriculture secretary 0
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Grassley calls McCain out for inconsistency on subsidies 0
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Hog farms can benefit rural agriculture and community 6
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Streamlining the agricultural process in Iowa 0
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How commodity grain farmers have sown the seeds of their demise 2
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Small-scale slaughterhouses are vital to the health of local food economies 2
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What I saw at the Iowa State Fair, the nation’s most popular annual food event 7
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Now that farmers have gotten big or gotten out, it’s up to alternative farmers 1
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Ironically, a lost battle against a hog factory planted the seeds for a sustainable farm 7
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No government disaster assistance for alternative farmers in Iowa 0
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Sen. Grassley: Screw conservation, let’s grow more corn! 33
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The Midwest will suffer if we don’t change our approach to flood protection 3
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When We Reign, It Pours
Humans have a hand in Midwest flooding 3
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago