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Iowa City’s city manager, Geoff Fruin, says a city goal to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 won’t be easy to reach, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. The City Council earlier this month declared …
Cedar Rapids Gazette: An Iowan whose company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build ethanol plants in Brazil said his facilities don’t contribute to deforestation some have blamed for wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. …
The Urban Land Institute, a real estate professional group with a branch in Iowa, recently released “Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate.” The national group’s Katharine Burgess, vice president of urban resilience, was in town …
When American Water President and CEO Susan Story stopped by our offices during a routine Des Moines business trip, the leader of the nation’s largest water system had two particularly intriguing things on her mind: …
As an up-and-coming startup in the agtech industry, the people behind Ames-based Smart Ag have experienced the startup scramble once or twice.
Just before the 2018 Farm Progress Show – the international event that launched …
The Hill: Iowa farmers and lawmakers are pushing back after President Donald Trump reneged on a promise to review a national program that gives waivers to small refineries that don’t add ethanol to their gasoline. Rep. …
The state program for testing private drinking water wells suffers from “severe under-utilization,” according to a University of Iowa study, reports Radio Iowa. The “Grants to Counties” program funds testing for nitrate, bacteria and arsenic, as …
Reuters: The U.S. Agriculture Department said today that it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat came over the phone from an angry …
Tribal leaders of the Meskwaki Nation joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 officials in a signing ceremony on Thursday as the tribe assumed responsibilities to administer the Clean Water Act’s Water Quality Standards and …
Christina Murphy grew up in the Missouri River town of St. Charles, Mo.
With the Mississippi River also nearby, Murphy’s family spent countless weekends and holidays on the water, boating, swimming and fishing.
“My love …
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