The Friends of Coralville Lake is working to raise awareness of the sedimentation in the lake and gauging community interest to launch a lake restoration plan in the coming years. The volume of sediment per year is equivalent to the volume of two Empire State Buildings.
Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.
Potential improvements include invasive species removal, trail work, interpretive panels and site amenities, native tree plantings and native seedlings.
Outdoors: Boating days are numbered, but ice fishing awaits ... and it’s never to early to prep for spring
Writer defends his love of outdoors and his ‘addiction’ to catching, and trying to catch, fish
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is trying to decide what to do with a cattle producer that built an underground manure tank in karst terrain — a risky area because of the potential for groundwater pollution — without getting a permit.
No need for sonar when fishing with this lure
The only questions after hunt was ‘did that really happen’
Alliant Energy plans Tuesday to file a proposal with the Iowa Utilities Board to buy a large-scale solar project near Palo from NextEra Energy Resources and further develop that project into the state’s largest solar and battery storage facility.
Gavilon Grain, which signed a consent order with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Oct. 22, has agreed to pay nearly $270,000 after a June 2020 fertilizer spill that killed hundreds of fish and mussels.
State Sen. Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, sees the need for a larger role in the climate change discussion for the faith community, which already helps mitigate the physical and emotional trauma of disasters related to global warming.
We’ve tried politically acceptable voluntary approaches for decades.
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