Guest opinion: US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks uninformed on ag runoff
Chris Jones, Benjamin Maas and Silvia Secchi Special to the Iowa City Press-Citizen Iowa’s 2nd District U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks recently co-authored with Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) a letter to the Des Moines Register that focused on an issue ostensibly important to Iowa’s water: the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), which replaced the Obama Administration’s hated (by agriculture concerns) Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. Following the time-tested strategy of tossing red herrings into our polluted lakes and streams, Miller-Meeks would have us beli...