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After years of debate over possible wind or solar projects, and considerable pressure from students demanding the college divest from fossil fuel interests and address climate change, Grinnell College has signed a 20-year deal to buy solar …
Iowa manufacturing and technology companies have a brand-new “sandbox” for trying out the latest in digital technology tools, thanks to a public-private partnership between Alliant Energy and the Center for Industrial Research and Service. On …
Radio Iowa: Ethanol industry leaders say there will be price, storage and political ramifications if President Donald Trump fails to act within the next two weeks and force oil refineries to blend more ethanol into gasoline. …
Des Moines Water Works has released a new proposal to form a regional planning and wholesale water system that would make sure local water supplies are adequate. Local utilities would continue to run the distribution system, retail …
Hannah Inman has been fundraising for years, and she polished her environmental ethic with one of this area’s most respected land stewards, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, where she was communications director.
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Des Moines Register: An Iowa biodiesel plant announced Tuesday it’s shutting down as Gov. Kim Reynolds warned that federal waivers exempting oil companies from using renewable fuels are hurting the state’s rural economy. Roy Strom, CEO …
Iowa is running drills with 13 other states to prepare in case the African swine fever outbreak in other parts of the world reaches the United States, Successful Farming reported. In a four-day effort, state agencies, …
Ethanol retailers in October will donate 3 cents of every gallon of Unleaded 88 sold during its Pink at the Pump campaign to help prevent breast cancer. More than 70 stations will participate. Proceeds will …
Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg blistered heads of state at a United Nations summit for, in effect, robbing her generation of its future by failing to address climate change, Bloomberg reported. “You have stolen my dreams and …
Sioux City Journal: A farmers’ cooperative in northwest Iowa is blaming the temporary shutdown of its corn-based ethanol plant on President Donald Trump’s decision to exempt dozens of oil refineries from a federal law requiring them …
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