clean water Archives - Public Justice Food Project

July 1, 2021 In Resource Materials

Iowa Public Trust – Doctrine Petition for Rehearing

Case: Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)

July 1, 2021 In Resource Materials

Iowa Public Trust Doctrine – Exhibit to Petition for Rehearing

Case: Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)

July 1, 2021 In Press Release

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch File Petition for Rehearing with Iowa Supreme Court

Two weeks ago, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a split 4-3 ruling against the plaintiffs in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch v. State of Iowa. Today, the plaintiffs filed a petition for rehearing asking the Court to reconsider its decision. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch believe that Iowans have a right to clean water, that it is the duty of the legislature to protect that right, and that it is the courts’ role to always protect the constitutional rights of Iowans.

June 18, 2021 In News, Press Release

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Against Iowa Citizens in Right to Clean Water Lawsuit

Today, the Iowa Supreme Court split and ruled 4-3 against the plaintiffs in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food & Water Watch v. State of Iowa regarding a lawsuit against the State of Iowa for failing to protect the public use of the Raccoon River. The lawsuit focuses on a well-known water crisis in Des Moines and Polk County: the polluted Raccoon River.

April 14, 2021 In Resource Materials

Arkansas Wildlife Federation v. Hudson Foods Opposition to Defendants Motion for Summary Judgment

April 1, 2021 In Cases

Sierra Club v. Walnutdale

Everybody has the right to clean water. Yet for the neighbors of industrial agriculture operations like Walnutdale Farms in Michigan, this right is unrealized. That is why the Public Justice Food Project represented the Sierra Club in an enforcement action alongside the Environmental Protection Agency…