Eight Linn County students will learn more about the wilderness — and themselves — in Colorado’s South San Juan Wilderness Area.
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Eight Linn County students will learn more about the wilderness — and themselves — in Colorado’s South San Juan Wilderness Area.
A majority of the Winneshiek County Board of Supervisors voted earlier this month to freeze funding for the roadside vegetation management program, started in 2016, because they say that money would be better spent updating snow plows and other Secondary Roads equipment.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will create a new grant program for combating emerging contaminants in drinking water in small or disadvantaged communities. The program will be funded with $18.9 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Agriculture contributes more than 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States today, and Iowa — with 13 million acres of corn and seven hogs per person — is one of the top two emitters, second only to Texas, since 1990.
The drafted plan, which would require operational improvements at two MidAmerican coal-fired power plants, is open for public comment.
But areas along the Mississippi River could see slightly above-normal risks of flooding, a report from the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities bureau stated.
Iowa will pay a contractor up to $834,000 to remove toxic “forever chemicals” from water in a 12-million-gallon basin holding runoff from a December explosion and fire in Marengo.
Donations to Iowa's Fish/Wildlife fund, informally called the Chickadee Checkoff, fell nearly 15 percent last year, but have been gradually shrinking since the fund was created in the early 1980s.
There is no long-term, stable financial support for watershed management authorities, creating unmet demand for local conservation practices.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources no longer has a deadline by which C6-Zero must clean up a Marengo explosion site, but is requiring the company to pay more than $400,000 for the work.
State and local regulators will be joined by C6-Zero representatives for a hearing Monday in Iowa County over whether a judge should force the company to comply with an emergency order to clean up the site of a Dec. 8 explosion and fire.
Jade McClay, a 9-year-old student at the Cedar River Academy, is undertaking projects that reduce waste and emissions.
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