News Releases - 2023 Archive

Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration's EPA granting Iowa and Midwest states' request for an emergency waiver to sell E-15 gasoline this summer. "The EPA made the right decision to permit the sale of E-15 nationwide this summer. The sale of E-15...

DES MOINES -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird will host a press conference with NFL Hall of Famer Mike Singletary in West Des Moines on Tuesday, April 25, to announce Iowa’s partnership with the National Child ID Program. The program is a community service safety initiative that provides child identification kits to families of...

DES MOINES – Monday, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the Biden Administration’s memorandum that has effectively created a new, burdensome cybersecurity rule. The new rule imposes significant costs on Iowans in small and rural public water systems.  With the new rule in effect, water systems with a population as...

DES MOINES – The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota today granted a preliminary injunction, stopping the Biden Administration’s new Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule for Iowa and 23 other states. The WOTUS rule is now on hold in a majority of states.   The new WOTUS rule...

DES MOINES – Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 21 other states in a letter opposing the Biden Administration’s Department of Energy’s new regulations, which would prohibit gas stoves that do not meet the new environmental standards. This would ban the sales of over half of all currently available gas stoves.  In...