Between the 1960s and the 1980s, global awareness of the fossil fuel industry's impact on the environment grew rapidly. A 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara garnered public condemnation of offshore drilling, and in the early '80s, Congress banned new offshore drilling in most p...
Of the residents of Iowa, 70.8% were born in Iowa, 23.6% were born in a different U.S. state, 0.6% were born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s), and 5% were foreign born.[110] Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net in...
In 1975, Governor Robert D. Ray petitioned President Ford to allow Iowa to accept and resettle Tai Dam refugees fleeing the Indochina War.[53] An exception was required for this resettlement as State Dept policy at the time forbid resettlement of large groups of refugees in concentrated commun...
Part of the scholarship process included Flores sharing how she got to where she is and what her goals are. “I come from a single-parent family where I am the oldest child, and my first language is Spanish,” explains Flores. “My childhood inspired me to go to college and have profes...
Last fall, he wrote in an op-ed in the Des Moines Register, that his administration would “also support giving drivers additional low-cost options at the pump, including higher ethanol blends such as E30 and higher octane options.” DeSantis told the people gathered at the summit on Th...
I've met and worked with dreamers. I think any parent would be so proud of them. So let's move toward what we should be doing as a nation and follow the values of our immigration history and begin to make it possible for them to come out of the shadows and to have (APPLAUSE) ...