Energy

West Central Cooperative plans a $27 million expansion that will increase its soybean processing capacity at its Ralston plant by 50 percent. The project also will add grain storage. At full capacity, the expansion would create demand for …

Mid America Recycling has bought the Waste Management recycling plant in Des Moines for an undisclosed sum. Mid America was sold to Greenstar Recycling in 2007, and Waste Management bought the facility in 2013. The …

The Metro Waste Authority is offering bus tours of its landfill in eastern Polk County at 8:30 a.m. June 6 and at 8 a.m. June 26. The landfill on University Avenue/Iowa Highway 163 takes in …

Six nonprofit organizations in Greater Des Moines have been awarded community grants totaling $18,000 from the Alliant Energy Foundation in the first of its two 2015 giving cycles. The Science Center of Iowa will receive …

The embattled Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released proposed rules for the volume of biofuels to be blended into the nation’s fuels through 2016, and brought immediate complaints, the Washington Post reported. Some farm interests said the …

Des Moines Water Works on Thursday said the 111 days it has run its $7,000-a-day nitrate-removal plant this year broke the previous single-year record of 106, set in 1999. Current nitrate levels are 15.31 milligrams …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday issued rules it said will protect drinking water for 117 million Americans by protecting small streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development, the Associated Press reported.

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Although it appeared earlier this year that the budget ax would fell Iowa’s 80-year-old state nursery, it now appears the source for seedlings and saplings will live long enough to grow at least one more …