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Americans may need to rethink — or perhaps recharge — their thinking about how electric vehicle charging infrastructure will be built out as EV technology takes off, as this Slate article suggests. Some of the current thinking …
On a Sunday morning in 1993, our phone rang just after 5 a.m. It was a friend from church telling us that the levees surrounding the Des Moines Water Works plant had been breached and …
Axios Des Moines: The average price of regular gasoline reached a record high in Iowa today at $4.12 a gallon, according to AAA. The national average was $4.40. A month ago, the average price in Iowa …
Cedar Rapids Gazette: 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. “The EPC …
The World Food Prize Foundation is accepting nominations for the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. The award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, recognizes science-based achievements in international agriculture and food production by …
Los Angeles is experiencing a drought that is the region’s worst in 1,200 years, according to this Fast Company article, and as it appears climate change may make it a long-lasting phenomenon, the city is considering …
Renewable Energy Group Inc. announced today that it has acquired a Northern California bulk fuel distributor. According to a news release, REG’s acquisition of Dawson Oil Company will bring about 24 million gallons of fuel …
Associated Press: Governors from eight Midwest states asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a permanent waiver that will allow each state to continue selling ethanol-blended gas year-round without restriction. The EPA’s decision last week …
Iowa Public Radio: The owners of a controversial cattle feedlot in northeast Iowa are asking to renew a permit that allows the facility to take 21.9 million gallons of water a year from the Jordan aquifer …
Iowa Public Radio: Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to require Iowa gas stations to sell fuel with higher blends of ethanol advanced Monday after being stalled in the Senate for months. Under the bill in the Iowa …
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