There's rumblings that today might be the last day for lawmakers at the statehouse. Here's two things you can do to help this otherwise mediocre and oftentimes harmful to our people end on a plus: - email your legislators and remind them not to vote for Bayer's Cancer Gag Act (pesticide immunity bill) if it's included in a spending bill: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/find - call Gov. Reynolds office at 515-281-5211 and urge her to sign House File 639 to help prevent the abuse of eminent domain by Summit Carbon Solutions (fb)

Anaerobic digesters are touted as a climate-smart solution for CAFO manure. But the fact is digesters are very expensive to build and require large-scale CAFO development to be cost-effective. House File 987, which would encourage the development of more anaerobic digesters in Iowa, is a poorly written bill that would not properly protect waterways nor public health. With over 13,000 factory farms, Iowa doesn’t need more CAFOs, and we don’t need more anaerobic digesters encouraging additional CAFO development. CAFOs are NOT climate smart. Email/call your state Representative and urge them to vote NO. (fb)