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.
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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.
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has approved a manure plan for Supreme Beef, a cattle feedlot in northeast Iowa, but opponents questioned whether it’s legal for the applicant to tweak the plan midway.
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