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.
Thousands of the prehistoric fish have died in fish kills caused by shallow, warm water. One piece of the study seeks to understand why shovelnose sturgeon aren’t swimming to deeper, cooler water in the summer months.
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
The company -- which had an explosion at its shingle-recycling plant in Marengo in 2022 -- had said it would dissolve but may be operating an office in Idaho, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Facility near Shell Rock paid fine after three years of emitting cancer-causing toxins into the atmosphere.
See photos as the Iowa DNR released thousands of fish at Liberty Center Pond in North Liberty.
Tungsten lures and shells are better for all or us when fishing and hunting
Wild Side column: Even in dry weather, rivers moving, creating nice spots
No one has found a rusty patched bumblebee nest in Iowa since at least 2017, when the species was listed as federally endangered. That changed when a Johnson County Conservation employee heard a buzzing sound while doing yard work this summer.
McLoud Run has seen more than a dozen fish kills since 1997, more than half due to water main breaks that released treated drinking water into the stream. Now, Cedar Rapids is planning to install water pressure sensors to monitor for breaks that could kill fish in Iowa’s only urban trout stream.
The waste from Royal Flush Truck & Trailer Washout was, at times, too concentrated for the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The company also failed to document its land application of manure washout.
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