Brent Newell Quotations

What makes this deal so bad for Iowans is that these facilities should control their pollution now. This just gives them a free pass, if it goes forward.

Particulate matter pollution kills people. We're a long way from cleaning up this problem.

It doesn't take into account the lagoons that store the waste or the decomposing feed, the decomposing corn stored on a dairy.

It would be an outstanding accomplishment to achieve this standard. But the credit is not all theirs because they don't control the weather. And this job is not over.

The bottom line is that the state should have had regulations in place to have a 20 percent reduction of these emissions in five basins by this year.