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DES MOINES— Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led 16 states in a letter to U.S. Congressional leadership, urging the passage of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (“EATS”) Act. The bill prevents California from regulating farmers and ranchers across the country by preserving states’ authority to regulate agriculture within their...

DES MOINES— Today, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) for failing to fulfill Governor Kim Reynolds’ request to allow the sale of year-round E15 gasoline.  On April 28, 2022, a bipartisan coalition of governors, led by Governor Kim Reynolds, asked the EPA to allow the sale...

DES MOINES- Today, the Iowa Supreme Court agreed to hear Attorney General Brenna Bird's appeal of the district court’s order to halt enforcement of Iowa’s Heartbeat Law. Attorney General Bird released the following statement in response: “I am glad that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear our appeal. I look forward...

DES MOINES- Today, Attorney General Brenna Bird filed an application for interlocutory appeal with the Iowa Supreme Court to reinstate Iowa’s Heartbeat Law. The appeal challenges the temporary injunction granted by the Polk County District Court on Monday that blocked the Heartbeat Law from protecting unborn life. The Iowa Supreme...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement today after the United States Supreme Court's decision to halt President Biden's student debt cancellation plan. “We took President Biden to Court to protect Iowans’ hard-earned money and won. Today’s Supreme Court win stops Biden’s illegal mass student debt cancellation...

DES MOINES- Attorney General Bird today announced that she is co-hosting a multistate donation drive to support more than 60 pregnancy centers across the U.S. from June 20 to June 24. The drive was created in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. ...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement today after the Iowa Supreme Court's decision not to rule on the Heartbeat law case based on merits. “I am disappointed that the Iowa Supreme Court today did not decide the Heartbeat law case. Due to the tie, the district...

DES MOINES– Attorney General Bird announced that Iowans who were scammed by TurboTax’s owner, Intuit, into paying for free tax services began receiving checks from a $141 million multistate settlement announced in May 2022. Approximately 4.4 million Americans will receive checks in the mail from the multistate settlement. Iowa will receive over...

DES MOINES— Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced that Iowa and a coalition of 41 other states negotiated a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with Indivior Inc., manufacturer of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone. Iowa will receive over $1 million from the settlement. The Suboxone medicine originated as a tablet and...

DES MOINES— Today, Attorney General Bird led a coalition of 19 states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) decision to allow California to illegally ban trucks. That ban forces truckers to buy electric trucks and regulates trucking out of existence through mandating net-zero emissions standards. The Biden Administration gave California...