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EPA confirms addition of seven water segments to Iowa's impaired waters list

Jan 13, 2025 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Laura Belin |Bruce Lear |Rachel Bruns

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has overruled the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on the state’s impaired waters list. Pam Mackey Taylor, director of the Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club, explained in a Bleeding Heartland post from November that last year, the EPA objected to the impaired waters list the DNR submitted.
Don't restart Duane Arnold

Nov 8, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Ed Tibbetts |Laura Belin |Patrick C. Swanson

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. Recent news articles have reported on NexEra’s interest in restarting the Duane Arnold nuclear plant. We need to consider the consequences of such an action. Restarting a closed reactor in decommissioning status has never been attempted. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) admits there are no regulations authorizing the restart of a closed reactor.
Conservative judges should be careful what they ask for

Jul 17, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Kurt Meyer |Laura Belin |Steve Corbin

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. In late June, six conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices overruled the Chevron doctrine in a case called Loper Bright v. Raimondo. The 40-year-old Chevron precedent had required courts to give deference to an administrative agency’s interpretation of the laws it administers and enforces. This may sound like an issue only a lawyer would care about. But it has major implications for how government functions.
Proposed CAFO rules won't protect Iowans or the environment

Feb 20, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Alexandra Dermody |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. He wrote this essay after attending the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ virtual public hearing about the new Chapter 65 regulations on February 19. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been revising its regulations for animal feeding operations as dictated by Governor Kim Reynolds’ Executive Order 10, issued in early 2023.
Wally Taylor

Jan 26, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Laura Belin

Democrats blew a chance to connect with rural Iowa Thursday, Mar 16 2023 Wally Taylor 7 Comments Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. Sierra Club has been opposed to the carbon dioxide pipelines that several corporations are trying to build across Iowa since the projects were first announced. The pipeline companies claim the capturing of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants will address climate change, save the ethanol industry, and provide economic benefits.
Iowa Utilities Board bill includes a good idea-and a lost cause

Jan 25, 2024 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Laura Belin |Bernie Scolaro |Zachary Roth

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. The Iowa Utilities Board has proposed companion bills on energy production in the Iowa legislature this year. The Sierra Club is focused on two provisions in House Study Bill 555 and Senate Study Bill 3075: including battery storage as part of an energy production facility, and designating nuclear power as an alternate energy production facility.
Victory for Sierra Club in Supreme Beef lawsuit

Apr 30, 2023 | bleedingheartland.com | Wally Taylor |Pam Taylor |Kurt Meyer |Laura Belin

Wally Taylor is the Legal Chair of the Sierra Club Iowa chapter. A Polk County District Court ruled on April 28 that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) improperly approved Supreme Beef’s nutrient management plan. Supreme Beef LLC is an 11,600-head cattle feeding operation in Clayton County. It sits at the headwaters of Bloody Run Creek, one of the most treasured trout streams in Iowa and officially designated as an Outstanding Iowa Water.
Opinion: It’s time to address our fentanyl epidemic

Feb 26, 2023 | thegazette.com | LaNisha Cassell |Wally Taylor |Althea Cole |Vanessa Miller

Earlier this month, during a visit to the California-Mexico border, Border Patrol agents told me that they had recently been forced to release a smuggler caught with 50 pounds of fentanyl because that sector of the border lacked the capacity to detain them. According to these agents, our border is so overrun that not every apprehended criminal can be detained. Beds in detention facilities are being prioritized based on the seriousness of the crime committed – and space is full every single day.
Opinion: Iowa Republicans are grabbing more power

Feb 26, 2023 | thegazette.com | LaNisha Cassell |Wally Taylor |Althea Cole |Vanessa Miller

A close-up view shows intricate details on the Iowa Capitol building in Des Moines on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette) Eight weeks into this year’s legislative session, we see one overarching theme emerging under the Golden Dome: there’s a power grab underway. This process has been in progress for the past few years, but is now moving at warp speed. And it’s all focused on one goal: locking in long-term Republican control over Iowa.