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In its push to become coal-free by 2025 – or sooner – by adding more “green” to its energy palette, the University of Iowa is considering a second utilities-related public-private partnership, this one for the production of renewable fuel pellets to help power its sprawling campus.

“He was wanting to help others and wanting what's the best for all the employees as a whole,” Mike Moore’s wife said of the union leader’s work during the nearly six-month strike. “ … He really wanted to make sure that everybody was taken care of.”

The City Council also signs off on a development agreement for Sub-Zero’s massive new light manufacturing facility near airport.

Agriculture contributes more than 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States today, and Iowa — with 13 million acres of corn and seven hogs per person — is one of the top two emitters, second only to Texas, since 1990.

Iowa could lose 75 percent of its 42 ethanol plants — with cascading harm to the corn industry — without carbon dioxide pipelines proposed for the state, according to a study commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.

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The drafted plan, which would require operational improvements at two MidAmerican coal-fired power plants, is open for public comment.