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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has reiterated his call for Congress to abandon climate change legislation in order to wait for an international treaty.

Fighting climate change should be done by international agreements and not with legislation currently being weighed in the U.S. Senate, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley told reporters Tuesday.
“Otherwise we’re going to lose all of our manufacturing — or manufacturing jobs — to China because it’ll be cheaper for our manufacturing to go over there than to [...]

As Democrats in the U.S. House race toward a Friday floor vote on the controversial cap-and-trade bill, some interests are distorting information on how the legislation affects consumers, according to the Iowa Policy Project (IPP).

Iowa Republican Rep. Tom Latham of Ames will introduce an amendment to proposed climate change legislation that would kill the measure if energy prices increase down the road.

Democrats are pushing for a vote on federal climate change legislation, perhaps as early as Friday, despite continued misgivings from farm-state Democrats like U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell.

Reacting to criticism from his 2008 opponent in the Democratic primary, U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell has laid out in greater detail his opposition to proposed legislation to deal with climate change.

Iowa Global Warming will host a free screening of "The 11th Hour," a documentary about ecological threats on the planet, to be shown in West Des Moines Monday night.

Iowa is joining with 18 other states to fight for the right to set higher vehicle emission standards than the federal government.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced late Friday afternoon that he will join 18 other state attorneys general in a lawsuit to challenge a ruling by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA ruling, [...]

Dr. James E. Hansen, the NASA scientist who is world-renowned for his work on global climate research, will return to Iowa next week when he appears before the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB). Hansen will again lobby for a ban on new coal plant construction and make stops in Des Moines and Iowa City to join [...]

A Washington State congressman brought a can-do attitude on global warming on his book tour, telling an audience at Prairie Lights in Iowa City that the climate crisis gives America “huge challenges and huge opportunities both in the same moment.”

“I think Americans respond to messages of optimism and confidence, and I think that is both [...]