WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Groups to defend clean water, wetlands against Project 2025-motivated lawsuit * * * DES MOINES - Today, Iowa Farmers Union, Iowa Environmental Council, Dakota Rural Action, and Food & Water Watch were approved to intervene in a federal lawsuit in Iowa District Court, CTM Holdings, LLC v. U.S. Department of Agriculture. The groups will defend longstanding "Swampbuster" Farm Bill provisions  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Wetland Loss Could Cost Upper Midwest $22 Billion Annually in Flood Damage * * * Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from wetlands in its Sackett v. EPA ruling, putting almost all nontidal wetlands at risk. New research from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found the decision puts 30 million acres of wetlands in the Upper Midwest (I  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Wetland Loss Could Cost Iowa $477 Million Annually in Flood Damage * * * Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from wetlands in its Sackett v. EPA ruling, putting almost all nontidal wetlands at risk. New research from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found the decision puts more than 640,000 acres of wetlands in Iowa at risk of destr  more