Changes made by Summit Carbon Solutions to its pipeline route in North Dakota include avoiding areas where landslides are likely to occur.
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Changes made by Summit Carbon Solutions to its pipeline route in North Dakota include avoiding areas where landslides are likely to occur.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills more than 40,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River flew to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to lobby for funding to protect and restore one of the world’s most important working rivers.
Landfills in two Minnesota counties are experimenting with methods of containing “forever chemicals” in an effort to keep them out of groundwater and lakes.
A DNR fisheries biologist who evaluated sections of about 50 river miles over the course of four days following the southwest Iowa fertilizer spill, reported that he found no living fish. He also noted there were numerous dead frogs, snakes, mussels and earthworms.
Many of these beloved public spaces aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. In some cases, it’s because the parks were built decades before federal accessibility standards were enacted. But even some new state park features are not fully accessible, a former state official said.
More than half of Iowa’s assessed streams and rivers had impairments and 63 percent of lake or reservoir segments were impaired in the 2024 draft list
The crop fertilizer killed fish and might have affected the river all the way to the Missouri border.
Wastewater, including blood from Agri Star’s beef processing facility, went into Williams Creek before Postville city staff discovered the problem, diverted the waste into a holding tank and alerted Agri Star.
Each winter, the upper Mississippi River plays host to hundreds of bald eagles that are migrating to and from their breeding grounds. They join the so-called "resident eagles" that always live along the river to create an impressive sight, particularly at the end of February and beginning of March.
UI instructor and nonprofit director Fred Meyer reveals new Earthmind programming for students
American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative Inc. want to build a 102-mile, 345-kilovolt line linking Iowa's Dubuque County and Wisconsin's Dane County.
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