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.

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.

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.

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.

They kind of sucked me up again on that downhill and into the second hill. I tried to make a pass on the inside around the last corner. Maybe I should've gone around on the outside instead of trying to pass on the inside. But, you learn something in every race and I'll just try to learn from this.