David Cwiertny
@dcwiertny.bsky.social
Director CHEEC, Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, University of Iowa.
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Why aren’t more people talking about this? Seems notable that Polk County officials don’t care to promote or raise awareness about the report’s conclusions. Are any local reporters gonna ask Polk County folks what’s going on here?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared
Roughly $400,000 in the $1m budget was for public awareness – but those funds were recently ‘zeroed out’
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Why aren’t more people talking about this? Seems notable that Polk County officials don’t care to promote or raise awareness about the report’s conclusions. Are any local reporters gonna ask Polk County folks what’s going on here?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Congrats Polk County! You win the “We All Want Clean Water” award for 2025 for zeroing out the CISWRA budget after funding a report and holding a community event that energized Iowans to take action on our water quality. Way to sustain the momentum!
www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/iowa...
www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/iowa...
As Iowans wrestle with polluted waters, politics get in the way
By Carey Gillam When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1 million landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water quality problems, they knew that the findings would be important to share. B...
www.thenewlede.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Congrats Polk County! You win the “We All Want Clean Water” award for 2025 for zeroing out the CISWRA budget after funding a report and holding a community event that energized Iowans to take action on our water quality. Way to sustain the momentum!
www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/iowa...
www.thenewlede.org/2025/08/iowa...
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You can’t make this shit up. Representative of IFU says we can “suspect” things like the water, pesticides & fertilizer can cause cancer, but then turns around and says regulations won’t work and farmers simply need to be paid more to change their ways.
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
Iowa Farmers Union, Iowa Environmental Council and Harkin Institute host cancer listening session at Meskwaki Tribal Center
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — As event moderator Tommy Hexter asked the 20 or so people in attendance for Wednesday night’s listening session how many of them had been affected by cancer in one way or another...
www.timesrepublican.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You can’t make this shit up. Representative of IFU says we can “suspect” things like the water, pesticides & fertilizer can cause cancer, but then turns around and says regulations won’t work and farmers simply need to be paid more to change their ways.
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-...
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From @artcullen.bsky.social
“The probable D nominee, Rob Sand, is still trying to find religion on how to think about pollution. He does not want to be perceived as being anti-agriculture. What he fails to understand is that you do not have to pollute to farm.”
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“The probable D nominee, Rob Sand, is still trying to find religion on how to think about pollution. He does not want to be perceived as being anti-agriculture. What he fails to understand is that you do not have to pollute to farm.”
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Editorials: People are waking up - Storm Lake Times Pilot
It isn’t often that over 1,000 Iowans will gather on a summer’s Monday evening to learn about nitrogen, phosphorous and water. Something is in the air. People filled Sheslow Auditorium at …
www.stormlake.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From @artcullen.bsky.social
“The probable D nominee, Rob Sand, is still trying to find religion on how to think about pollution. He does not want to be perceived as being anti-agriculture. What he fails to understand is that you do not have to pollute to farm.”
www.stormlake.com/stories/edit...
“The probable D nominee, Rob Sand, is still trying to find religion on how to think about pollution. He does not want to be perceived as being anti-agriculture. What he fails to understand is that you do not have to pollute to farm.”
www.stormlake.com/stories/edit...
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Hear about the D day invasion of crop dusters and other fun stuff here from me with @zacharyos.bsky.social
cornholechampions.substack.com/p/the-common...
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📻 The common good and the establishment (w/ Chris Jones) - Cornhole Champions Interview
Toss some bags at agricultural policy... why ethanol might be our biggest mistake... and what a progressive water policy might look like.
cornholechampions.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hear about the D day invasion of crop dusters and other fun stuff here from me with @zacharyos.bsky.social
cornholechampions.substack.com/p/the-common...
cornholechampions.substack.com/p/the-common...
Chris is spot on in this piece. Who wins with this decision? New dischargers. An enterprising reporter should track who receives new discharge (NPDES) permits into these segments now. Those are the interests that greased the skids to make this happen, Iowans’ water quality and health be damned.
August 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Chris is spot on in this piece. Who wins with this decision? New dischargers. An enterprising reporter should track who receives new discharge (NPDES) permits into these segments now. Those are the interests that greased the skids to make this happen, Iowans’ water quality and health be damned.
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“The new policy would aim to promote discussion of both viewpoints, rather than presenting one side or the other as a settled fact…”
dailyiowan.com/2025/08/12/r...
dailyiowan.com/2025/08/12/r...
Regents approve new policy aimed at “indoctrination,” instead of anti-DEI, CRT policy
Iowa Board of Regent-controlled universities are now required to teach controversial topics “in a manner that fosters critical thinking and avoids indoctrination of one perspective” under a new board ...
dailyiowan.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“The new policy would aim to promote discussion of both viewpoints, rather than presenting one side or the other as a settled fact…”
dailyiowan.com/2025/08/12/r...
dailyiowan.com/2025/08/12/r...
The article is paywalled, but this is some complete and utter bullshit…
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The article is paywalled, but this is some complete and utter bullshit…
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Were I to run for governor, I would make environmental quality a centerpiece of my campaign from the word "go," rather than trying to workshop something on the fly. And to be honest, I'd probably just plagiarize @theswinerepublic.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Were I to run for governor, I would make environmental quality a centerpiece of my campaign from the word "go," rather than trying to workshop something on the fly. And to be honest, I'd probably just plagiarize @theswinerepublic.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...
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@amierivers.bsky.social and @iowastartingline.com doing a nice job with this cancer series, with some help from @dcwiertny.bsky.social
iowastartingline.com/cancer-in-io...
@amierivers.bsky.social and @iowastartingline.com doing a nice job with this cancer series, with some help from @dcwiertny.bsky.social
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How pesticides help fuel Iowa’s cancer crisis
Pesticides are part of why Iowa’s fields are so productive. Research into pesticide exposure also connects them to our cancer crisis.
iowastartingline.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
@zacharyos.bsky.social
@amierivers.bsky.social and @iowastartingline.com doing a nice job with this cancer series, with some help from @dcwiertny.bsky.social
iowastartingline.com/cancer-in-io...
@amierivers.bsky.social and @iowastartingline.com doing a nice job with this cancer series, with some help from @dcwiertny.bsky.social
iowastartingline.com/cancer-in-io...
I’m old enough to remember when American Public Media reported that saturated buffers are a sham and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Here, we celebrate this wasteful spending as if that report never happened….
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IDALS breaks ground on water quality projects in Tama and Grundy counties • Iowa Capital Dispatch
IDALS is beginning construction on 18 water quality and nitrate reduction projects in Tama and Grundy counties.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’m old enough to remember when American Public Media reported that saturated buffers are a sham and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Here, we celebrate this wasteful spending as if that report never happened….
iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/idals...
iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/idals...
Critical infrastructure.
July 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Critical infrastructure.
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Here’s ISU extension talking about more N application yet this year.
Make the case this institution cares about water quality. Go ahead.
agupdate.com/iowafarmerto...
Make the case this institution cares about water quality. Go ahead.
agupdate.com/iowafarmerto...
Is it too late for rescue N in 2025?
Editor’s note: The following was written by Richard Roth, Iowa State University assistant professor and Extension nitrogen science and soil fertility specialist, and Sotirios Archontoulis, professor o...
agupdate.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Here’s ISU extension talking about more N application yet this year.
Make the case this institution cares about water quality. Go ahead.
agupdate.com/iowafarmerto...
Make the case this institution cares about water quality. Go ahead.
agupdate.com/iowafarmerto...
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Michigan has become a leader in safe drinking water after the Flint crisis, but mobile home parks remain a rough spot.
Michigan led on safe water after Flint, but mobile home parks are stubborn rough spot
Michigan has become a leader in safe drinking water after the Flint crisis, but mobile home parks remain a rough spot.
bit.ly
July 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Michigan has become a leader in safe drinking water after the Flint crisis, but mobile home parks remain a rough spot.
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A hog slaughtering facility in Sioux City, Iowa promised to bring jobs to town, but blood and pollution came with Seaboard Triumph Foods as well. In footage provided to Sentient, animal waste can be seen flowing into a drain in the ground.
July 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A hog slaughtering facility in Sioux City, Iowa promised to bring jobs to town, but blood and pollution came with Seaboard Triumph Foods as well. In footage provided to Sentient, animal waste can be seen flowing into a drain in the ground.
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According to one source, the facility has caused a strain on the city’s wastewater treatment.
Read the investigation by @ninaelkadi.com:
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Read the investigation by @ninaelkadi.com:
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At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide
When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.
sentientmedia.org
July 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
According to one source, the facility has caused a strain on the city’s wastewater treatment.
Read the investigation by @ninaelkadi.com:
buff.ly/7Xqj8zI
Read the investigation by @ninaelkadi.com:
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2 million miles of point source pollution
July 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
2 million miles of point source pollution
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And if Iowans are looking for a local angle, we have been waiting since 2010 for a new health assessment of nitrate that may tell us the SDWA standard of 10 mg/L as N isn’t sufficient to protect folks from cancer and adverse birth outcomes. The future of that assessment is seriously in doubt….
July 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And if Iowans are looking for a local angle, we have been waiting since 2010 for a new health assessment of nitrate that may tell us the SDWA standard of 10 mg/L as N isn’t sufficient to protect folks from cancer and adverse birth outcomes. The future of that assessment is seriously in doubt….
Difficult to put into words how devastating this is for environmental and public health protection. We will be less safe, more at risk, and our environment will be far more polluted and degraded because of this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Difficult to put into words how devastating this is for environmental and public health protection. We will be less safe, more at risk, and our environment will be far more polluted and degraded because of this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...