The law came in response to a controversial proposal from Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions. The company has partnered with ethanol producers to capture some of the carbon emitted by ethanol plants in several Midwestern states and send it via pipeline to North Dakota for underground storage.
The Blind Pig, a mainstay in Cedar Rapids, has become a staple in its new Monticello location, too.
The new spot will focus on counter service and offers pizza by the slice.
A Decorah farmer is accused of stealing enough corn and soybeans to fill nearly 25 semi-trailer trucks, worth over an estimated $175,000, and shielding the income from an ongoing bankruptcy case, Winneshiek County authorities say.
He is a field agronomist who is part of an Iowa State University Extension “crops team” that are experts for farmers who have questions about planting and harvest and everything between.
Across the Midwest, meatpacking plants -- including Agri Star in Postville -- often pollute non-white communities and low-income neighborhoods, according to an Investigate Midwest analysis of two decades of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement data.
Iowa has permitted 15 new digester facilities since 2021, when the Legislature passed a law allowing animal feeding operations with digesters to exceed the state’s limit of 8,500 animal units. Seven of the 15 dairy farms added to their herds since they got digester permits, a review of DNR data shows.
Project near Pella is largest undertaken in Iowa
Coralville company’s pioneering treatment now in clinical trials
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The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.
Four Iowa business groups are advocating for a reform of how both residential and business electric rates are set in the state.
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