Source: David Pitt, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/23/20


Environmental groups and community activists rallied Thursday at the Iowa Capitol to push lawmakers to consider halting the growth of hog farms in the state. Activists at the rally called on lawmakers to consider a House bill introduced last year that would impose a moratorium on hog farm permits. Republican committee leaders blocked the Democrat-sponsored bill by declining to assign it to a subcommittee.

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