The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has granted a northeast Iowa cattle feedlot a water use permit, despite concern from neighbors and environmental groups the feedlot will draw more water than stated in its permit renewal request.
Testing sites include Cedar Rapids metro area, Central City, Monticello, Decorah
Iowa state park rangers and staff told to move out of state-owned housing now have until the end of 2023, according to budget proposal passed by the Iowa Senate and House this week.
The Iowa Environmental Council wants to force the state's Environmental Protection Commission to adopt flood plain maps to comply with a law that says animal-feeding operations can’t be built near waterways.
Supreme Beef wants to withdraw up to 21.9 million gallons of water a year from two wells in the Jordan aquifer near the 11,600-head facility in Clayton County. Opponents who spoke at a public hearing Monday say the feedlot will use far more water and should have new permit application.
Auditor of State Rob Sand says there’s a long record of noncompliance with a 1990 Clean Water Act provision.
Twenty people lost their lives to domestic violence in Iowa in 2021, the most in a decade.
Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat seeking re-election, joins many Republicans and ethanol industry leaders in calling for the Biden administration to utilize E15 to ease gas price pressures on consumers.
White oak trees, which are native to Iowa, can grow to be 500 or 600 years old if grown in the right conditions.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a Waukon dairy farm $1,500 for three manure releases in 2018 caused by employees not properly using a new manure pumping system.
More than 100 people attended a Sierra Club sponsored public hearing Tuesday in the Capitol rotunda on the use of eminent domain for pipeline construction.
Central City will use one of its two water wells only in emergency cases — to extinguish a fire or if the other well fails — because it is contaminated by toxic chemicals in concentrations that approach current federal health guidelines.
A Polk County judge has ruled environmental groups may continue with a lawsuit against the Iowa Department of Natural Resources over the approval of an 11,600-head cattle feedlot in the watershed of a popular trout stream in northeast Iowa.
Higher than projected gambling revenue will make it possible for the Legislature to bump up the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF) by $87 million in the coming year to nearly $290 million in fiscal 2023.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon said it was an honest mistake to let her fishing license expire before an excursion on the Mississippi River. She said she asked her department to cite her.
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