The Eastern Iowa Airport’s governing board will consider buying a residential property valued at $770,000 because the home has a drinking water well with high levels of toxic chemicals found in firefighting foam used for decades at the airport.
A Stockton facility has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine for illegal dumping after a former employee allegedly buried underground at least 20 barrels, some containing unknown liquids.
Iowa City Transit had 45,009 more passenger trips this October than in October 2022, the city reported last week. Since launching Fare Free Iowa City in August, there have been 135,191 more trips compared to last year.
The newly scheduled hearing concerns ordinances in two counties that restrict how close the pipelines can be located to cities, houses, livestock facilities and other sites. Summit has argued they are so restrictive that they might prevent the project.
William Gutowski, an Iowa State University professor of meteorology, has worked with climate models for decades to study climate change
The 9-acre savanna will be a haven for the endangered rusty patched bumblebee
POET, the world’s largest ethanol producer, has agreed to pay a nearly $90,000 fine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for releasing pollution into the air at its plant in Menlo, in western Iowa.
A draft of a new Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 65 released in September required new CAFOs near karst terrain to have a greater barrier between manure basins and the porous soil common in northeast Iowa. But the version the DNR sent to the Environmental Protection Commission in mid-November did not include that provision.
The Mississippi River is one of the world's great rivers, but it seems to carry less reverence than other iconic water bodies across the country, an attitude with serious consequences. River advocates are finding their own ways to help people connect.
Twenty students will be selected to develop a community project that builds climate resiliency in local communities.
The climate is changing — but there’s still time to adapt, assessment authors said.
Using your waste streams, New Village Initiative transforms plastic into a product mixed into asphalt and concrete around the country
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