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In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at what’s next for America’s disappearing wetlands, and how the battle to save remaining wetlands will fall to states, which don’t protect them equally.

Clean water advocates in northeast Iowa plan to challenge a water permit for a large cattle feedlot in state court, as part of their continuing efforts to protect a prized trout stream.

I am currently President of the Spring Creeks Chapter of Trout Unlimited and I have been seeing over the past …

Iowa City’s Jim Larew's focus on environmental law marks a return to his youth, when modern environmentalism was born. He foresees a renaissance.

Iowa regulators must consider environmental and public health effects before they grant permits to withdraw large quantities of water from the ground, according to an administrative law judge. That is at odds with long-standing procedure at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which has focused on the quantity of water.

Trump's mass deportations would create a "huge problem" in rural Iowa

It’s rare for the DNR to ask the AG’s office to step in on enforcement. And the Environmental Protection Commission, a nine-person, governor-appointed board that oversees environmental polices at the DNR, doesn’t always follow staff recommendations.

Iowa’s environmental movement might be compared with the civil rights efforts of the 1950s and 1960s, with the general public …

Iowa’s 2024 legislative session has featured bills that would affect Iowa’s land, water and air. Here are seven introduced by Republicans this month.

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I’m here with your update for November 23, 2023. …