Environmental groups and members of the public attended the virtual hearing and voiced concerns about living downstream of the plant and the impacts it might have on their health.
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is offering free training courses on chronic wasting disease in deer for hunters and community members interested in managing, testing for and educating others on the disease.
Though the DNC will consider Iowa as an early state candidate, the state’s chances look slim heading into the process.
DNR plans to discuss water quality standards as they relate to antidegradation, human health criteria, per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, lake nutrients and rights reserved for tribal nations.
The state agency that denied a request for inspection reports on a Cedar Rapids home health agency now says that denial was based on an incorrect assumption that it wouldn’t have any such records.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it would restrict the use of federal subsidies for solar energy projects in favor of protecting farmland, but clean energy advocates say solar gives farmers a higher production value per acre than any traditional crop.
Lawyers for the family of an Iowa woman killed by her estranged husband say that had it not been for Bellevue police officers’ “deliberate refusal to enforce the law,” the woman would still be alive.
Woman worked for the Iowa Department of Corrections at the Anamosa State Penitentiary from November 2023 through February 2025
The federal government’s most recent assessment of health-facility inspections indicates Iowa has failed to meet three key standards.
A state-licensed pharmacy in Washington, Iowa that has been sued by business partners for millions of dollars is now being sanctioned by the state for distributing counterfeit Ozempic.
A veterinary technician who allegedly stole drugs from the clinic where she worked and a rural veterinarian accused of unlawfully distributing controlled substances have been sanctioned by the state.
A state agency that denied having inspection records for a Cedar Rapids home health agency now admits it has the records but considers them confidential.
New leader of company behind contentious pipeline proposal sends letters to landowners along the project’s route.
Even some legal asylum-seekers face detention and deportation.
A report from the Center for Rural Affairs found that funding from the Inflation Reduction Act had a “significant impact” on the adoption of conservation practices in Iowa.
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