i would like to contact the worth county sierra club.   can you give me a
link?   myrna
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From: "Jane Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:34 AM
Subject: Worth County legal battle


> This was front page of the Globe Gazette - paper in the Worth County area.
>
> http://www.globegazette.com/live/local/ni3.php
>
> Local News Story
> Posted online: Tue Jul 15 00:40:29 CDT 2003
>
> Advocacy groups join Worth County legal battle
>
> By KATHIE OBRADOVICH, Globe Des Moines Bureau
>
>     DES MOINES - Several environmental and farmers' advocacy groups joined
> the legal battle Monday over Worth County's efforts to regulate air
> pollution from large-scale livestock operations.
>
> The Sierra Club, the Iowa Farmers Union and Worth County Concerned
Citizens
> said Monday that they have filed a brief with the Iowa Supreme Court in
> support of the local regulations.
>
> "We fear the effects factory farm pollution will have on our health," said
> James Berge, a member of Worth County Concerned Citizens.
>
> Worth County approved an ordinance in 2001 aimed at addressing
public-health
> concerns by regulating pollution levels inside confinement buildings and
at
> nearby homes.
>
> The Worth County Farm Bureau and others challenged the ordinance and a
> district judge agreed that only the state had the authority to regulate
> livestock operations.
>
> "Without local control, rural Iowans are left at risk - unwittingly
exposed
> to dangerous levels of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia gas, dust and left to
drink
> contaminated groundwater," said Chris Petersen of Clear Lake, vice
president
> of the Iowa Farmers Union.
>
> Worth County appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, claiming that counties
have
> the right to protect citizens from public health threats. The
environmental
> groups filed a "friend of the court" brief Monday in support of the
county's
> case.
>
> "The Worth County ordinance shows that a local government will take
matters
> into its own hands to protect citizens from factory farm pollution,"
Sierra
> Club lawyer Barclay Rogers said.
>
> Kendra Kimbirauskas
> Sierra Club
> 3839 Merle Hay Rd. Suite 280
> Des Moines, Iowa 50310
> Tel:  (515) 251-3995
> Cell: (612) 702-7298
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