Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa utility regulators want to finish Summit hearing by month’s end

Iowa utility regulators want to finish Summit hearing by month’s end BY: JARED STRONG – SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 6:12 PM READ ORIGINAL STORY HERE The Iowa Utilities Board seeks to complete an evidentiary hearing for Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline proposal by the end of September, according to a recent board order. Summit’s hearing is in its fourth week. The company seeks a hazardous liquid pipeline permit in Iowa as part of its five-state project that would transport captured carbon dioxide from ethanol plants for underground Continue reading →

Meet some of the Iowans combating climate change

Meet some of the Iowans combating climate change, and make your own plan to join the fight by Chris Espersen, The Cedar Rapids Gazette Aug. 27, 2023 5:00 am Photo: Jordan Weber working on a regenerative art project. (Walker Art Museum) One of the deadliest fires in U.S. history is occurring in Maui. Hurricanes hitting the coast of … California? Hot-tub-temperature oceans in Florida. Temperatures approachin extremely dangerou levels in Iowa. If you are not worried, you are not paying attention. It is not just Continue reading →

Waterloo Courier story on CO2 pipeline

State-level office advocating for consumer on proposed Iowa pipeline by Andy Milone Sep 15, 2022 (updated Sep 17, 2022) DES MOINES — The Iowa Office of Consumer Advocate was given little floor time during informational meetings on Navigator’s proposed carbon pipeline passing through several Iowa counties. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t play a significant role on behalf of the public. It may be successful in gathering information, which often was requested by residents at these meetings, and making it public. While it’s still somewhat early to see Continue reading →

TRUTHOUT: As Biden Axes KXL Pipeline, Water Protectors Urge Him to Reject DAPL and Line 3

In advance of the 2020 Iowa Caucuses, Biden told climate activists with Bold Iowa that he opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline. “Take my word. I’ve never broken my word. I’ve been opposed to the pipeline to begin with,” Biden told Bold Iowa’s Kathy Byrnes and Ed Fallon. Now, the activists are asking him to keep his promise and prevent a proposed expansion of the pipeline. “Take my word. I’ve never broken my word. I’ve been opposed to the pipeline to begin with.”

Sojourner Truth Radio post-debate panel

On October 22, 2020, Bold Iowa director Ed Fallon joined panelists from across the country to debrief the final debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Sojourner Truth Radio with Margaret Prescod. Fallon’s observations begin at the 7:40-minute mark. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PROGRAM.

Salon — Farmers have long memories: Trump’s climate record could hurt him in Iowa

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/17/farmers-have-long-memories-trumps-climate-record-could-hurt-him-in-iowa_partner/ Farmers have long memories: Trump’s climate record could hurt him in Iowa In rural Iowa, farmers bearing the brunt of climate change may play an outsize role in electing the next president JUDITH LEWIS MERNIT OCTOBER 17, 2020 4:23PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Capital & Main. Keith Puntenney never gave his permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cut through his Iowa farmland. When, in 2016, the state took the land anyway, he and several other landowners sued regulators for trespass, on Continue reading →

Capital & Main — Farmers Have Long Memories: Trump’s Climate Record Could Hurt Him in Iowa

Farmers Have Long Memories: Trump’s Climate Record Could Hurt Him in Iowa Farmers Have Long Memories: Trump’s Climate Record Could Hurt Him in Iowa In rural Iowa, farmers bearing the brunt of climate change may play an outsize role in electing the next president. by Judith Lewis Mernit Published on October 14, 2020 Keith Puntenney never gave his permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cut through his Iowa farmland. When, in 2016, the state took the land anyway, he and several other landowners sued Continue reading →

Al Jazeera interviews Kathy Byrnes

[Link to the original interview] American Voter: Kathy Byrnes Al Jazeera asks the same key questions about the presidential election to voters across the United States. Kathy Byrnes’s top election issue is climate change [Al Jazeera] 7 Oct 2020 US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling for the presidency in a sharply divided United States. Trump has been focusing on “law and order”, Biden has been trying to strike a conciliatory note. The Black Lives Matter movement, and whether Trump Continue reading →

The Intersection of the Longest Climate March and Black Lives Matter

I met Ed Fallon when we were both in our early 20s. I was looking for a third roommate in my run-down, three-story, sloped-floor apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the border of Cambridge. He was an itinerant musician, believer in all causes to save our planet, and general nice guy. We campaigned against nuclear power together, and I followed his trajectory as he grew from farming his family property in Ireland, to winning a seat in the Iowa house of representatives, to hosting a radio talk-show and, in the past few years, to organizing the longest climate-change march in history.