NextEra Energy plans to build new solar energy generation project near Center Point.
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NextEra Energy plans to build new solar energy generation project near Center Point.
Duane Arnold Solar IV installation will not involve Alliant Energy, unlike their previous projects.
An estimated 40,000 fish are dead on a 20-mile stretch of Crane Creek in Northeast Iowa and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out what killed them. Area is ‘complex’ with multiple drainage tiles from farms and nearby Readlyn, officials said.
The DNR’s Manchester field office was notified Friday about dead fish in Crane Creek about two miles southwest of Readlyn, according to a news release Monday. Officials don’t yet know what caused the fish kill, but think it originated around 250th Street and Piedmont Avenue.
All parts of Iowa — for the first time in more than four years — have sufficient soil moisture to not be considered “abnormally dry” by national climate experts, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor report released last week.
The Storm Prediction Center has confirmed the storm system produced a derecho that started in central Iowa and swept through Eastern Iowa before moving on to Illinois and Indiana.
Anna Wolverton, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the flooding was “a saving grace” for communities on the middle to lower portions of the Mississippi River that have been stricken with drought over the past several years.
The Gazette sat down with Matt Gent, a pig farmer from Wellman who in January was named president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association, to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the industry,
Driftless Water Defenders, a new nonprofit organization, hosted a meeting in Elkader this week to educate residents about water contamination and the group’s pledge to advocate, negotiate and — if necessary — litigate for cleaner water.
The landfill in Marion is expected to reach capacity eight years earlier than originally expected, due to natural disasters and population increases.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in April approved a watershed plan for Trout Run and Siewers Spring, which supply water for the hatchery. The goal of the plan is to reduce erosion from farms in the Trout Run watershed to keep the stream clear of sediment that can harm fish raised at the hatchery.
Google will invest another $1 billion in a Council Bluffs data center and $1.3 million on water quality projects in the Missouri River Basin in southwest Iowa. The tech company still is considering whether to build a data center in Cedar Rapids.
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