2025-02-09
No discussion + No direction = Greenwashing At last Thursday’s Study Session, the Des Moines City Council took all of five seconds to approve a new airport committee with no start date, no mission and an as yet to be defined structure. (Airport Committee Pages from Study Session – 06 Feb 2025 Agenda) The meeting
2025-02-05
House Bill 1303, which adds an environmental justice component to large project permitting will be discussed by the House Environmental Committee in executive session next Tuesday February 11. The committee will decide whether or not to move the bill forward. The bill would help include cumulative impacts in the SAMP and thus we strongly support
2025-01-23
Introducing the CURB Act V2.0 The first meeting of the State House Environment Committee introduced HB1303 (bill, analysis), also known as ‘the CURB act’. This is a follow-up to 2024’s HEAL Act, which added the concept of Environmental Justice Communities into State Law. HB1303 takes this from the conceptual phase into something practical. HB1303 will