Iowa Ag-Gag: Putting Industry over Free Speech

Iowa Ag-Gag: Putting Industry over Free Speech

By: Meredith Kaufman and Justin Schwegel

A 2019 U.S. District Court decision held an Iowa ag-gag statute unconstitutional. Iowa's attorney general is wasting public resources challenging the ruling despite the dubious constitutional footing of the Iowa statute. 

CAFOs: Permission to Pollute

CAFOs: Permission to Pollute

A Brief Discussion of Agricultural Exemptions under Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act

By: Meredith Kaufman

There have been great strides in U.S. environmental law over the past six decades. However, despite well documented evidence of the harms agriculture can cause to humans and the environment, agriculture is still largely exempt from the nation’s most important environmental laws.