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Wild Side column: Almost every good cast and several shoddy ones rewarded with solid strikes.
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The Iowa Senate passed a budget Tuesday that could zero out funding for river and stream sensors that measure nitrate and phosphorus to see if conservation practices are working.
The river is expected to crest in many areas this weekend, but several areas are already experiencing flooding.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among key Republican U.S. senators who’ve slammed Wall Street’s efforts to tackle climate change but are themselves big supporters of green energy.
B&B Redemption Center in Cascade is one of a handful of new redemption centers to open in Iowa since the Iowa Legislature last year updated the 45-year-old bottle bill. A major change was increasing the handling fee going to redemption centers from 1 to 3 cents per container. Those extra pennies started flowing in January.
While historical trends are tough to analyze, severe weather of the future may shift to be more variable and severe.
Monticello has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine after illegal discharges of polluted water from the city’s wastewater treatment plant into the Maquoketa River, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported.
The EPA said the company broke federal law by not giving safety data sheets to first responders and not issuing an emergency notice after the explosion that injured nine employees — at least two seriously — and caused a fire that took Eastern Iowa firefighters 18 hours to extinguish.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird had joined the legal effort to halt the federal rule
‘There are 125 different species of fish in the Mississippi River,’ said Ross Geerdes, executive director of the center, in Lansing. ‘We can’t have all of them, but we’d like to have a dozen or maybe more. People want to look at the underside of the Mississippi River.’
River communities could enter flood action stages as soon as this weekend, cresting toward the end of April and beginning of May.
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