Five Eastern Iowa counties — including Linn and Johnson — are teaming up to use $2 million in federal money to create a climate action plan for the region.
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Five Eastern Iowa counties — including Linn and Johnson — are teaming up to use $2 million in federal money to create a climate action plan for the region.
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The 2023 Iowa Climate Statement issued Tuesday focuses on benefits of solar and how to make it thrive in the state.
Gazette reporters contributed to “When it Rains,” a series of news stories about increased rainfall in the Mississippi River Basin that won the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award for writing - short form.
A state agency recently placed new requirements on the water-use permit for the Osceola County Rural Water System to prevent the river from drying up, which has now happened five times in the past eight years.
Water quality, conservation agriculture, power grid and more to be discussed in seven panels at the 2023 Iowa Ideas virtual conference.
Iowa regulators believe liquid ammonia fertilizer caused the fish kill last year near Coggon.
The river has reached near-historic lows amid extreme drought in much of the basin for the second year in a row, which is slowing down shipping and driving up costs for everyone from barge companies to grain elevators.
By testing 20 wells, as well as sampling groundwater and soil, airport leaders hope to understand the scope and direction of PFAS contamination and see if there is evidence of a link between tainted wells and firefighting foam used for decades at the airport.
Navigator Heartland Greenway — a company that has proposed building a 1,300-mile carbon dioxide pipeline through Iowa — has paused its state permit application, saying it may change the plan or route.
An eastern Iowa mobile home park demolished some of its homes without testing them for asbestos and did not dispose of them in a way to prevent asbestos exposure of its residents, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
A Linn County committee compared emissions between 2010 and 2019 to track progress.
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